When writing the post on Day Of Less, I kept thinking they reminded me of another band. It wasn't until the run up to this post that I realized they reminded me of And None Of Them Knew They Were Robots. Hailing from Leeds, the Robots were part of the amazing emo scene the UK had at the time, featuring bands like Caesura and One Toy Soldier. Like Day Of Less, they mixed hardcore with midwest emo and emo pop, and also like Day Of Less they abandoned this sound after one album and went almost pure hardcore for the second.
The band's first release was in 2001, the self-titled album featured here. It's their only midwest emo-flavored release, mixing hardcore-style vocals with clean riffs; the much-mourned Castevet (later CSTVT) strike me as a spiritual successor in some ways. Their second album, Liebestod, came out in 2002 and kept only the hardcore aspects of the first. The band's final release was called Victory As A Drug, put out in 2003, and it features yet another sound shift. The band revisits the emo pop\hardcore paradigm, at times sounding like a harder-edged Braid. In 2016, the band released a vinyl-only discography which includes four unique tracks, though it omits the hidden track from Victory. These four tracks are mainly in the style of the first album.
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