Biography
Mall emo/post hardcore/screamo from Shreveport, LA. Formed in 2003, by Ryan Veuthey (vocals), Jason Campisi (bass), Christopher Kichler (guitar), Will Hughes (drums) - having Spencer Bailey (guitar) joining some time in June 2003.
Influences for the bands sound were:
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Thursday
Glassjaw
Alexisonfire
(as stated by band member Spencer Bailey's Spotify playlist).
The first band project that the original bandmembers had (excluding Spencer Bailey), was named Glitter black. It had started in 2000 and a demo as well as a full length album was recorded. The full length was called "Waiting to be Reborn".
After the founding of the band April's Love Affair in 2003, they released their Self-Titled EP "April's Love Affair" on May 15th 2004 and in the year thereafter, Jason had left, with Joel Reynolds replacing him and helping write and form "The Manner In Which I Scream Goodbye" EP on 13/5/2005. On 10/28/2005 "April's Love Affair" had played together with "Mindless Self Indulgence" at 516 Soundstage. In 2006, Joel and Spencer left, with Dave and Daniel taking their place. As a promotional piece of media for their last show in 2007, they have recorded 2 songs - Beautiful Things Are Better Left Dead, acoustic and an unreleased song which is also acoustic.
After the disbanding in 2006, in 2007, Ryan Veuthey was the vocalist for Porcelain Arms and helped produce their EP "The comfort of... Porcelain Arms". There was a reunion in 6/8/2011. The reunion show had other members, including James from Statues Cry Bleeding who also was in Shreveport, LA. Joel Reynolds played guitar for this band, and the 2 original guitar players of Statues Cry Bleeding went on to found iwrestledabearonce."Cancer Research" was an electronic project from 2019 - present. In 2020 there was a grind core project started, named "Baby Puncher".
In 2025, someone and an associate uploaded April's Love Affair's discography onto Spotify - which included crude wording and imagery from around February to May. During this, the band had gained a massive following due to TikTok and other social media platforms usage of April's Love Affair's songs. Will, Spencer and Ryan regained control in June but the artist page and releases were shortly thereafter taken down. The releases and artist page returned on 1 July.
In 2026 12th of June, daydream announced in the ALA discord that new shows will be played if the vinyl sells well.
CD's were re-released on 1 January 2026 by Daydream Records.
TRIVIA:
April was originally meant as a month, it was chosen due to Ryan's father having an affair in the month of April - but they had played along with the community and named the woman on both album covers "April".
Ryan Veuthey was kicked from his school for spreading "anarchist and satanist propaganda". The said propaganda was him and a friend, handing out posters for an upcoming show.
Spencer Bailey got the funds to afford his gear by being a waiter. During this, Killswitch Engage was at the restaurant he was waiting.
The acoustic version of Beautiful Things Are Better Left Dead was released on 23/03/26 in celebration of the normal version reaching 1 million streams on Spotify alone.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.