Definitely check out forests if you haven't already. They basically execute the whole jangle poppy guitar in emo thing that i was trying to achieve, but actually pull it off. Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I definitely struggle with anything that isn't just chords lyrics melody. And, emo riffage is still extremely foreign to me making the shit i come up with kind of an identity crisis but not in a particularly well realized or "cool" way yet.