Chocolate Kiss were an emo pop band from Atlanta, active from 1997 to around 2003. They were already a veteran emo group at formation, comprised of members from Car vs Driver, the hal al Shedad, and Savalas. The history of the band is chronicled by one of the band members here. Beginning with their first album, Onethrutwelve, this band had a similar sound to The Get Up Kids and followed a somewhat similar path in progressing it, becoming more polished and pop-oriented with each successive release. Regardless, this is 90s-style emo pop; despite the release timing, it has little in common with the greater 2000s emo pop third wave. And while the band did smooth out some of the rough edges from the early work, they never did away with all of them, nor did they lose the connection to midwest emo.
The band's first release was the Onethutwelve LP in 1998. I wasn't able to secure a physical copy of this release, so I'm linking to high quality copy on the Lost Songs. blog. In 1999 they released the Les Boom Boom EP, and followed it in 2001 with Set Yourself On Fire. The band's final release was the 2003 LP No Funeral, after which they called it quits.
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