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Or they remixed it somehow

 

My money is on a completely re-recorded version.

 

You’d have to have access to the original recordings to re-mix. Since it’s the same 4 band members and they built their own recording space I’d still guess rerecord.

 

Love the reimagined artwork for the revisited album.

 

Riley expressed a similar sentiment in an interview recently:

Thinking back to the creation of ‘The Artist in The Ambulance’ and touring that, it was the band’s first album with a big budget and promotion: “We wrote, and recorded that in about three months, and it was very rushed. We felt a lot of pressure as it was our first major label release. We didn’t get to do everything we wanted to, creatively. So, when it came to making the follow-up, we put our foot down and said that we needed more time. We are not going straight out on the road, and we need time to experiment. Doing that allowed us to become the band that we needed to be at that time, and that has helped steer us for the last 20 years.”

While I love the original, color me excited if this is indeed real.

 

Yeah TAitA is the album that got me into this band and was a bridge to heavier music overall for me, I'll love anything they do with it

 

Thrice is my favorite band and that album is a huge part of the reason why. I've loved most everything they've put out since, and Vheissu is my favorite album of theirs, but the combination of heaviness, lyrics, melody, and musicianship - and even Dustin's vocals, which I know he isn't a fan of - on TAITA is something I've not found since.

 

As cool or interesting a re-recording of TAITA might be, I can’t help but also feel weird about it because I’ve been listening to the album for about 13 years now (and others for about 20). I’ve grown so accustomed to how it sounds that I wonder just how I would receive a new rendition of it, even if it does sound better and has some more tasteful ideas.

 

This is exciting to hear for Artist, and it almost makes me wish they'd polish Vheissu to match how their production changed (vocals especially, but instruments too) starting with Alchemy. Vheissu's a great album as it stands, but it could be really special to hear with a fresh coat of paint.

 

So if they reimagined these songs in a unique way for the 20th anniversary, which version do they play live for the anniversary tour? That makes me think that they didn't reinvent the album too much. It'd be a strange thing to promote a new iteration of an album while still playing their old renditions.

 

See: TV albums - something I just cannot get into at all

 

Unwritten Law threw some re-records of old songs on their last record and they sound good and refreshed.no major changes from I remember. Just a 2022 version musicianship and production wise.

 

I need them add more breakdowns and death metal vocals

 

i just wanna own the record on vinyl... was hoping for a 20 year repress haha

 

Yeah, Everclear did the same. In those cases, I think it was more about money than it is for Thrice. They mainly just want to scratch this annoying itch they've had for years about the mix.

 

Yeah, you could add Taylor Swift and probably a lot more artists to the rerecord for profit/control category.

Thrice is likely delaying an eventual new album which would be more profitable to do something that wanted to for years. I feel like that’s why everyone seems to have a positive outlook on this release.

Also, them dropping new post H/E singles/acoustic versions helps too.

 

Isn't re-recording your old albums a little bit like George Lucas adding pointless CGI aliens to the original Star Wars movies? I understand the impulse, but I don't think any re-recording will ever have the same impact as the first time we all heard it. But if it makes them feel better, I guess that's good.

 

It’s not uncommon for a band to redo a song. Often it can be from an Ep or earlier release. I guess doing the whole album could be self indulgent in some people’s eyes, but this doesn’t seem for profit as much as it is a fix something they weren’t happy with.

 

Some successful examples include Silverstein and Emery. Emery redid im only a man during lockdown and it’s great, Silverstein does their redux and the re-recorded versions of old stuff sounds great with Shane’s updated vocal

 

This thought resonates with me too. I think there's enough of a demarcation between Thrice's sound (from a production standpoint) before and after Alchemy that they can justify revisiting older records if they want, but at the same time it's a bit indulgent to "correct" an album that was already received well.

In any case, hopefully new songs won't be long in coming once this is released, though realistically an anniversary tour for Artist (which would be great) is all but certain when this comes out.

 

I like the Cloud City windows.

 

I mean, it’s their album. They can re-record it and you can still listen to the original

 

Unless they pull down the album from all streaming sites and stop all sales of the physical album, no, this is not like George Lucas.

 

most useless rerecording I can think of is The Ataris doing Boys of Summer again

 

Ed has interesting things to say about *Horizons* at the 41 minute mark in this podcast: Musik & Bier meets Eddie Breckenridge (Thrice)

He also mentions the 20th anniversary of *Artist*, an upcoming unknown project, and that they've been listening to *Artist*. I think an anniversary tour at least is very likely at this point, and the rumored "revisited" release could be legit.