With two back-to-back, critically acclaimed full-lengths–2021’s ‘I Became Birds’ and 2023’s ‘the whaler’–Home Is Where established themselves as one of the defining bands of emo’s fifth wave. These records showcase the band of Bea MacDonald, her songwriting partner/guitarist Tilley Komorny, bassist Connor O’Brien, and drummer Josiah Gardella channeling their Florida punk forebears and MacDonald’s longtime songwriting idol, Bob Dylan, into dread-fueled, voice-tearing emo that shows American rot splayed across highways.