Bachelor - Doomin' Sun image updated 10/13/25 -ch they managed to be named

they managed to be named both "Best New Band" and "Worst Band" in Creem Magazine's annual reader's poll

along with the album's influence on the next wave of EMO and pop-punk music NME listed the album as one of "20 Emo Albums That Have Resolutely Stood The Test Of Time"

becoming the band's most commercially successful album to date

" "Ghettochip Malfunction" and more

Bachelor - Doomin' Sun image updated 10/13/25 -ch they managed to be namedGoldenrod Vinyl. Bachelor, the new project from Melina Duterte (Jay Som) and Ellen Kempner (Palehound), is not a band, it's a friendship. In January of 2020, the duo packed the entirety of Duterte's recording equipment into two cars and headed to a rental house in Topanga, CA where over the course of two weeks, they wrote and recorded their debut album Doomin' Sun. In this space, Kempner and Duterte hybridized their individual songwriting talents,