“Somehow Geoff had gotten my address and he showed up at my door at midnight after the show,” he says. “He was like, ‘Hey, we’ve got this new record. I really want you to hear it!’ He handed off a copy of Full Collapse that they’d recorded but wasn’t out yet. He was just so proud of it. I had never heard anything like it. Most of the hardcore and emo that I’d heard had a really different sense of dynamics. The first thing I noticed, as a huge fan of the Cure, was that there were more new-wavy guitar elements, not just the heavy, chugging stuff. It just stunned me. We listened to the hell out
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