Spanish Love Songs

Spanish Love Songs formed in Los Angeles in 2014, developing a strain of melodic punk that prioritized lyrical specificity and economic anxiety over the genre's traditional romantic preoccupations. Vocalist Dylan Slocum's plainspoken, almost journalistic approach to writing about debt, depression, healthcare costs, and the grinding reality of working-class American life set the band apart immediately. Schmaltz (2018) was a word-of-mouth breakthrough in the punk underground. Brave Faces Everyone (2020) arrived just as the pandemic hit and resonated enormously with an audience suddenly confronting exactly the themes the band had been writing about. No Joy (2022) debuted at number 2 on the UK Independent Albums chart.