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Proper.

Genre: Punk, Pop Punk, Emo
Origin: U.S.A
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Biography

Brooklyn's Proper., operating earlier under the name Great Wight, arrived in 2017 via debut album The Suburbs Have Ruined My Life. The collection delivered charged emo-punk tracks that traced frontman Erik Garlington's coming-of-age as a queer black man who relocated from the bible belt to New York City.

Drawing on an expansive list of touchstones that encompassed System of a Down, At the Drive-In, Kendrick Lamar, Tiny Moving Parts, Kanye West, and Modern Baseball, Garlington joined bassist Natasha Johnson and drummer Elijah Watson to become regular presences across the East Coast D.I.Y. punk circuit.

They signed with U.K. indie Big Scary Monsters before issuing their second album, 2019's widely praised I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better, which contained the Willow Hawks and Sonder Bombs-assisted single "Bragging Rights."

Three years afterward the band delivered the expansive Great American Novel, produced by Bartees Strange. The fifteen-track concept LP examined race, sexuality, gender, and systemic oppression while folding post-hardcore, alternative, indie, and progressive rock textures into the trio's continually shifting sound.

Top Songs

  1. The 90sThe 90sThe 90s · 2024The 90s3:00
  2. Bragging Rights (feat. Willow Hawks)Bragging RightsEBragging Rights (feat. Willow Hawks) · 2019Bragging Rights (feat. Willow Hawks)3:39
  3. Part-TimerLullEPart-Timer · 2023Part-Timer2:01
  4. Part-TimerPotentialEPart-Timer · 2023Part-Timer4:13
  5. Part-TimerMiddle ManagementEPart-Timer · 2023Part-Timer2:40
  6. Part-TimerMarqueeEPart-Timer · 2023Part-Timer1:30
  7. The Great American NovelYou Good? (In Media Res)EThe Great American Novel · 2022The Great American Novel1:44
  8. The Great American NovelIn The Van Somewhere Outside of BirminghamEThe Great American Novel · 2022The Great American Novel3:20
  9. The Great American NovelThe RoutineEThe Great American Novel · 2022The Great American Novel2:42
  10. The Great American NovelMilk & HoneyEThe Great American Novel · 2022The Great American Novel3:28
  11. The Great American NovelDone TalkingEThe Great American Novel · 2022The Great American Novel4:26
  12. Don'tDon'tEDon't · 2020Don't2:59
  13. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting BetterI Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting BetterEI Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better · 2019I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better7:14
  14. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting BetterTobyEI Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better · 2019I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better4:03
  15. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting BetterWhite SheepEI Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better · 2019I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better3:39
  16. A$AP Rocky Type BeatA$AP Rocky Type BeatEA$AP Rocky Type Beat · 2019A$AP Rocky Type Beat2:25
  17. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting BetterCurtain's Down! Throw in the TowelEI Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better · 2019I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better2:51
  18. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting BetterNo LoiteringEI Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better · 2019I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better3:34
  19. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting BetterNew Years ResolutionsEI Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better · 2019I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better2:09
  20. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting BetterIDFWA (Art School)EI Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better · 2019I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better2:57

Albums

I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better

I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better

E2019
I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better
Proper. · Album · 2019
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  1. RepriseProper.0:36
  2. Curtain's Down! Throw in the TowelEProper.2:51
  3. No LoiteringEProper.3:34
  4. Bragging Rights (feat. Willow Hawks)EProper.3:39
  5. Trill Recognize TrillProper.2:58
  6. A$AP Rocky Type BeatEProper.2:25
  7. New Years ResolutionsEProper.2:09
  8. IDFWA (Art School)EProper.2:57
  9. Lime Green Jheri CurlEProper.3:58
  10. Fucking DisgustingEProper.3:27
  11. White SheepEProper.3:39
  12. Dekalb AveProper.3:07
  13. TobyEProper.4:03
  14. I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting BetterEProper.7:14

Singles & EPs