Harmlessness Turns 10

The story goes that The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die’s band name was inspired by the repeated final lyrics to Neva Dinova’s 2005 song “I’ve Got A Feeling”: “The world’s a shitty place and I can’t wait to die.” Though the ever-changing Connecticut collective has regularly been lumped into the nebulous “emo revival” movement, their entire ethos — aside from, say, their shared admiration for Brand New or those shows they played with Algernon Cadwallader that one time — often seemed almost contradictory to what made emo “emo” in the first place. TWIABP, whether it came from a genuine place or they were just trying to convince themselves, evoked some sense of hope. Here’s the comically long-ass band name to prove it.