If only every band turned such a blind eye to genre traditions, style labels and scenes as Starmarket does on Sunday’s Worst Enemy,

Drawing equally on pop punk and emo, Starmarket, a Swedish four-piece, thumbs its nose at sound stability finding an odd but workable balance between the catchy hooks and power of pop punk and the introverted and complex workings of emo on Sunday’s Worst Enemy. Sitting closer to traditional power-pop influenced punk than its emocore leanings, Starmarket nonetheless manages to put some reflective spins on its lyrics and bridges, giving this record a slightly different feel from the typical pop punk record.

While Starmarket draws on post-hardcore themes, it paints them in a strikingly different format than often found in the gritty world of heartbroken emo: mainly a firm sense of dynamics and keen nose for melody. While indulging in the jangly guitars similar to those of the Get Up Kids, Starmarket doesn’t abandon the power from its drive train—its catchy rhythm guitar melodies and burning tempos, and its vocal tracks concede most of the alienated, bitter tone of post-hardcore acts to downright catchy vocal hooks, Sunday’s Worst Enemy finds emo learning a new trick, and actually sounding fun.

Between the overdriven guitars of "Unsaid," matching trebly leads with fuzz-box rhythms, to the explosive rhythms of "Carry On," Starmarket proves its picked up more than a casual lesson in striking pop sparks with reckless abandon. Dirty and uncompromising, the band proves pop is more a state of mind than anything based on production values or styles, dropping a bubbling, infectious sense of merriment into even its most tortured songs.

Starmarket isn’t all about pop, however. With abstract lyrics, the band explores personal issues in directions popsters would never venture into. Fragmented and minimalist at times, Starmarket succeeds in turning disjointed statements into nebulous situations easily anchored into a wide variety of situations. From the poignant "Too Much Gone Wrong," a tale of communication breakdown and the resulting relationship fallout to "Ten Seconds," chronicling the disappointment following the discovery of an empty personality behind a beautiful façade, Starmarket drops enough hints for listeners to be able to easily identify with its songs’ directions without making them claustrophobically personal.