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Dustin Kensrue Talks ‘TAITA’ Revisited

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  1. Melody Bot Feb 2, 2023
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    Dustin Kensrue of Thrice talked with Spin:

    “We’ve had enough space from [the anniversary albums] to where I think you get some objectivity,” Kensrue says. “You’re able to appreciate the great things that are happening without as much squirming and being like ‘Oh, that was weird’ or ‘That’s not what I would do now.’ Enough time has passed that we can just see that it was cool that we did this thing and — even though we’re all different now — there’s stuff on those albums that’s kind of cool, even if we don’t remember what was going through our heads to get there. Moving on to whatever we record next — Horizons/West, I guess — I think we’ll take some lessons from coming back and revisiting these.”

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  2. Yourbiggestflan Feb 2, 2023
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    Keep coming back to how fun, fast, and easy it must have been for them to re-record this album. I bet they had a blast.
     
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  3. Chase Tremaine Feb 2, 2023
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    I laughed yesterday when I read this paragraph and got to the phrase “Horizons/West, I guess.”

    I definitely get the sense at times that they’re not stoked about how they put themselves into a corner with the conceptual double album thing. Personally, I would be just as fine with them dropping H/W or making a different project first before circling back around to it. Either way, I’m very excited about the prospect of how spending so much time revisiting and performing TIOS and TAITA might influence and re-energize future music.
     
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  4. thechetearly Feb 2, 2023
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    As much as I love Thrice, I can't help but feel that their records since Beggars have been pretty internal changeable as far as the sonic identity on each album. Although I feel the same way about Jimmy Eat World, where I kind of sort of just want them to hang it up. I think the well is just a bit dry (which makes sense when you've been a band for so long etc etc).
     
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  6. RiseAgainst379 Feb 2, 2023
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    My man Ed is buried in the mix on the new versions. I also think I'd prefer if they just let him record all the screams instead of splitting it between him and Dustin.
     
  7. Jason Tate Feb 2, 2023
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  8. scottlechowicz Feb 2, 2023
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    Imagine hearing Color of the Sky or Deeper Wells or Beyond the Pines and being like “these guys should just hang it up” lol
     
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  9. Brent Feb 2, 2023
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    I don't think he said they should hang it up... and I'm 100% on board with where they said something changed and just not feeling anything past that album.

    After listening to it a couple times, I'm not feeling this, at all. The title track is ruined.
     
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  11. splitsecond Feb 3, 2023
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    This is so bad. The mix is so half-hearted and lacking in energy. You couldn’t get McTernan to mix? Really? Man.
     
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  13. SuNDaYSTaR Feb 4, 2023
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    It feels like some people haven't listened to their albums or seen them live for the past 15 years or so.
     
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  15. SuNDaYSTaR Feb 4, 2023
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    I haven't really kept up with it, but I was under the impression that this album had already been recorded/mixed/mastered from the previous sessions and was ready to go. Guess I was way off on that one.
     
  16. Chase Tremaine Feb 4, 2023
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    They had started to write and record West, but they didn’t like how it was shaping up, so they basically decided to scrap it and start over. That’s when they started releasing those B-sides in 2022 instead, although from my vantage point, it seemed like there was some mixed messaging as to whether the B-sides were East leftovers or if they were West contenders.
     
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