no hope/no harm is a Boston four piece lead by Aaron Perrino of The Sheila Divine and Dear Leader, and longtime music journalist (a regular contributor to Esquire, Playboy, Vice etc) Luke O’Neil, formerly of The Good North. They've just released a new EP entitled Swimming In The Charles, and it is a joy.
The band was borne from the duo’s shared love of emo — Charles Morton, and Adam Hand, of The Field Effect, were brought on board after a singalong at Emo Night Boston, which O'Neil runs. If you listen closely to the below songs, you can probably hear a number of permutations of that broad genre — from twinkling, prettier sad songs, to screaming post-hardcore, and tightly-wound pop-punk show up throughout their material, at turns literary-minded or arch and self-referential, but always meant to break your heart.
Behold, fans of Sunny Day Real Estate, Pianos Become The Teeth, Clarity-era Jimmy Eat World and of course The Smiths, your new gods: