Rock and Theology: On the spirituality of Sunny Day Real Estate

I’ll admit, for as much as I have written about “punk” on this blog, my definition of “punk” is broad and I have quite a bit of “emo” in me. Sunny Day Real Estate recently announced a reunion tour and a reissue of their first two albums Diary and LP2, and upon hearing this news, I revisited their music as well as the band’s “narrative,” including the famous conversion of lead singer Jeremy Enigk to Christianity part way through the band’s career. In the process, I reflected a bit on the punk rock “sub-genre” of emo and Sunny Day’s own place within its history, and generated some thoughts on what I’m calling the “charisms” of various types of rock music, i.e. their secular-spiritual “gifts” or, more simply, certain sensitivities, types of perceptiveness, or just “things they’re good at.” The result of this musical-spiritual reminiscence of my own “emo” fandom is posted over at Rock and Theology.