Emo as sincere as it is catchy, Diels-Alder, the Lanzhou-bred act that has since found its members scattered about the country, returned with their latest EP - Backlash - this summer. With a melodic charge that recalls the glory days of acts like Dashboard Confessions and Something Corporate, there’s a lot of craft beneath the pop punk veneer - an attention to detail in the arrangements and lyrics that makes each song a full-course meal. With crisp songwriting and an elastic, playful musicality that only deepens, it will rightly turn you into an insecure teenager all over again.