Movements

Movements, a Southern California quartet, fuse post-hardcore intensity with emo-rock emotion in a manner recalling Touché Amoré and the Story So Far. After attracting Fearless Records, the band signed and released the 2016 EP Outgrown Things. Their debut album Feel Something advanced their progress by charting in 2017, while the sophomore set No Good Left to Give followed in 2020. Subsequent singles “Cherry Thrill” (2022) and “Killing Time” (2023) reflected a turn toward melodic indie rock.

The group formed in 2015 in Rancho Santa Margarita with vocalist Patrick Miranda, guitarist Ira George, bassist Austin Cressey, and drummer Spencer York. Inspired by Title Fight, Oceana, and Thrice, the friends blended angst and melody on their first demo, “Protection.” Following their initial live show, Fearless Records signed them, issuing the Will Yip–produced Outgrown Things in 2016; that EP contained the singles “Kept” and “Nineteen.” The band returned to Yip for the 2017 full-length Feel Something, which topped the Billboard New Artist Albums chart, reached the Alternative Albums Top Ten, and entered the overall Top 200. Capitalizing on that breakthrough, they supplied a cover of R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” to the 2018 compilation Songs That Saved My Life.

Reconvening in the studio, Movements shaped their second album around the personal transitions after their debut success; the urgent No Good Left to Give, issued in 2020, addressed love, life, and mental health. In 2022 they issued the hook-driven “Barbed Wire Body” and continued the direction with the buoyant “Cherry Thrill,” then opened 2023 with the forceful “Lead Pipe” and “Killing Time.”