Emergency & I: Thoughtful, Quirky, Mercurial Young Adults

Our theme this week comes from Robert Christgau, who can turn a phrase better than any other music critic. (The) Dismemberment Plan’s Emergency & I is all nervy energy, jittery mood swings, and mid-20s panic. It’s also an album Matt and Tim like quite a lot. For replacements, Matt offers two albums even closer to his heart in Motion City Soundtrack’s I Am the Movie and Los Campesinos! No Blues. We talk ennui and existentialism and freaking the f*** out, then Tim does some fun math to make a choice.