Origami Angel
Origami Angel are a Washington, DC duo built around Ryland Heagy and Pat Doherty, and their music helped define a hyper-energetic corner of modern emo and pop punk. Early EPs such as Quiet Hours, Doing the Most, and Gen 3 led into Somewhere City, a record whose fast transitions, bright guitar work, and emotional sincerity made the band's "Gami Gang" world feel both playful and deeply felt. GAMI GANG expanded the approach into a sprawling set of songs that bounce between emo, pop punk, indie rock, mathy guitar turns, and occasional heavier bursts without losing a sense of friendship and momentum. The Brightest Days and Feeling Not Found show the duo becoming more concise while still treating genre as a flexible toolkit. Origami Angel's heaviness is usually emotional and kinetic rather than metallic, but the punk foundation is clear in the speed, drumming, and shout-along urgency. Their songs often sound joyful even when anxious, making technical movement and vulnerable writing feel like parts of the same breathless conversation and release.
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Origami Angel Discography
7 tracks
- 1 Ride Our Bikes to School 2:40
- 2 SpaceX T-Shirt 2:43
- 3 Osmosis 2:16
- 4 Hey There 2:14
- 5 Mark My Words 2:36
- 6 Step 3:39
- 7 Notice 2:56
5 tracks
- 1 effective. Power 3:08
- 2 ROM Hack 2:55
- 3 w / u 1:36
- 4 Thanks! I hate it. 3:16
- 5 fin (the long and untold story of how i know it's meant to be) 2:50
10 tracks
- 1 Welcome to... 3:05
- 2 24 Hr Drive-Thru 2:44
- 3 666 Flags 2:47
- 4 Doctor Whomst 2:59
- 5 Say Less 2:25
- 6 Escape Rope 2:16
- 7 The Title Track 2:31
- 8 Skeleton Key 3:02
- 9 Find Your Throne 3:26
- 10 The Air Up Here 4:44
4 tracks
- 1 Ruby 1:19
- 2 Sapphire 2:58
- 3 Emerald 2:26
- 4 XD Gale of Darkness 1:44
4 tracks
- 1 Denny’s Devito 2:19
- 2 Origami Bagel 2:34
- 3 Kenny 1:16
- 4 Wassup My Good Man 1:16
5 tracks
- 1 Witchu / Route 1 Baby 2:29
- 2 Roo B / Olympic Hi Dive 1:45
- 3 24 Hr Delivery / KD MVP 4:33
- 4 Rom Com Hacky Sack / Space Flex T-Skrrt 4:34
- 5 Greenbelt Station 2:17
20 tracks
- 1 #GAMIGANG 0:28
- 2 Self-Destruct 3:00
- 3 Möbius Chicken Strip 3:12
- 4 Noah Fence 3:14
- 5 Mach Bike 2:48
- 6 Isopropyl Alchemy 3:24
- 7 You Won't. 2:42
- 8 Neutrogena Spektor 2:55
- 9 Greenbelt Station 1:59
- 10 Bossa Nova Corps 2:52
- 11 Kno U 2:47
- 12 /trust 3:07
- 13 [spoons rattling] 1:23
- 14 Tom Holland Oates 3:15
- 15 Caught in the Moment 2:18
- 16 Dr. Fondoom 1:13
- 17 Bed Bath & Batman Beyond 0:55
- 18 Footloose Cannonball Brothers 2:39
- 19 Blanket Statement 2:06
- 20 gg 4:54
3 tracks
- 1 JUDGE 1:33
- 2 FAWN 1:27
- 3 FOE 1:46
3 tracks
- 1 penn hall 1:57
- 2 francis 2:44
- 3 live from the ufo 2:30
8 tracks
- 1 The Brightest Days 2:26
- 2 Thank You, New Jersey 2:39
- 3 Picture Frame 2:36
- 4 Kobayashi Maru (My Very Own) 2:29
- 5 Second Best Friend 3:47
- 6 Looking Out 1:21
- 7 My PG County Summer 2:28
- 8 Few and Far Between 4:22
2 tracks
- 1 My PG County Summer 2:28
- 2 Thank You, New Jersey 2:39
1 track
- 1 Thank You, New Jersey 2:39
14 tracks
- 1 Lost Signal 1:24
- 2 Dirty Mirror Selfie 3:37
- 3 Where Blue Light Blooms 3:20
- 4 Viral 2:39
- 5 Underneath My Skin 2:38
- 6 Wretched Trajectory 2:46
- 7 AP Revisionist History 2:53
- 8 Living Proof 3:16
- 9 Fruit Wine 2:51
- 10 Sixth Cents (Get It?) 2:15
- 11 secondgradefoofight 2:17
- 12 HM07 Waterfall 3:01
- 13 Higher Road 3:13
- 14 Feeling Not Found 4:15
6 tracks
- 1 Sixth Cents (Get It?) 2:15
- 2 secondgradefoofight 2:17
- 3 Wretched Trajectory 2:46
- 4 Dirty Mirror Selfie 3:37
- 5 Where Blue Light Blooms 3:20
- 6 Fruit Wine 2:51
4 tracks
- 1 Wretched Trajectory 2:46
- 2 Dirty Mirror Selfie 3:37
- 3 Where Blue Light Blooms 3:20
- 4 Fruit Wine 2:51
3 tracks
- 1 Dirty Mirror Selfie 3:37
- 2 Where Blue Light Blooms 3:20
- 3 Fruit Wine 2:51
1 track
- 1 Fruit Wine 2:51
1 track
- 1 Back to Life 2:48
2 tracks
- 1 I Don't Like Who I Was Then (feat. Ryland Heagy of Origami Angel) 3:53
- 2 Junebug 3:16
2 tracks
- 1 Play Around the Crit 1:28
- 2 Compound Eyes 1:08
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