Touché Amoré

Hailing from Los Angeles, Touché Amoré fuse jangly post-hardcore textures with raw, emotionally charged screamo vocals, forging a singular style that reshapes the legacies of Jawbox and Converge into an unexpectedly cohesive whole. Their third full-length, Is Survived By, arrived in 2013 and climbed into the upper half of the Billboard 200, while Stage Four reached the lower half upon its 2016 release. Lament, issued in 2020 as the band’s fifth collection of original songs, placed inside the Top Five of Billboard’s vinyl albums chart. In 2022 the group joined Circa Survive for the split EP Splitsville, on which each act covered the other’s material, and their sixth studio album, Spiral in a Straight Line, appeared in 2024.

The band formed in 2007 when singer Jeremy Bolm, guitarists Clayton Stevens and Tyson White, bassist Nick Steinhardt, and drummer Jeremy Zsupnik came together. Their debut, To the Beat of a Dead Horse, surfaced in 2009. Elliot Babin soon replaced Zsupnik behind the kit, and bassist Tyler Kirby took over for the departing White while Steinhardt shifted to rhythm guitar. The record eventually caught the ear of Jacob Bannon’s Deathwish, Inc., which issued the follow-up Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me in 2011 and then Is Survived By in 2013. That third album reached number 85 on the Billboard 200 and entered the Top 30 of the alternative, rock, and hard rock charts while also topping the vinyl albums chart.

After touring behind Is Survived By, the quintet entered L.A.’s Seagrass Studio with producer Brad Wood (Sunny Day Real Estate, Smashing Pumpkins) to record their fourth album. Inspired by Bolm’s mother’s death from cancer, Stage Four emerged on Epitaph in 2016 and peaked at number 168 on the Billboard 200 while performing slightly better on various rock charts. Epitaph released the live document 10 Years/1000 Shows: Live at the Regent Theater in November 2018; captured the previous February at the band’s thousandth show, it charted on both the vinyl and independent album lists. The following year Touché Amoré re-recorded their entire 2009 debut and issued it as Dead Horse X to mark its tenth anniversary.

Lament, the group’s fifth studio album (excluding the re-recording), arrived in 2020. Produced by Ross Robinson (Korn, Limp Bizkit) and featuring guest contributions from singer-songwriter Julien Baker, Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull, and others, it registered on Billboard’s rock, hard rock, alternative, and independent charts and reached number five on the vinyl albums chart. The two-song Covers, Vol. 1 and the five-album Cassette Box Set both appeared in 2021. The 2022 Splitsville EP paired Touché Amoré once more with Circa Survive for mutual covers, and in 2024 the band reunited with Robinson for Spiral in a Straight Line, released on Rise Records and including appearances from Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow and, again, Julien Baker.