Thrice Band • Page 348

lol

 

yeah wish I would have just done that.
Can walk to Soda Bar. fuck

 

For us we made it a trip to san diego

 

Thought I heard Riley and Ed got on the Discord the other night. Anyone tune in to hear what they said?

 

If I was given access to the discord I might have kept the alliance membership

 

yeah they were on for about an hour. talked a little bit about their gear used for the record but were otherwise pretty tight lipped about it. riley said the record they were working on is horizons/west, ed said maybe there are screams, and they confirmed they would tour later this year. other than that it was kind of baseball talk and stuff we'd want to hear live/things we're listening to.

 

this hat will be the end of the Thrice that I loved, when artists start doing the cowboy cosplay I simply cannot follow


ps. this is mostly a joke but also kind of not

 

If there's any remote chance of them making a thoroughly heavy record again, it's now, having seen the crowds they drew for TAITA nostalgia. I think we'll still get the usual grab bag of styles, but there will probably be some heavier flourishes than usual after revisiting that era.

 

I would agree and had the same hope after seeing the response to the AITA tour. Here is to hoping it will have an impact on their writing process now. I just hope in general that they keep with the heavy influences as it is a core of their sound, it doesn't have to ever sound like the messenger or deadbolt, but Dead Wake and open your eyes are for me the two best songs they have released in awhile and both lean into heavier sounds. It would be a bummer for them to shift away from that sound indefinitely.

 

It would be cool to see them mix that old heavy sound or whatever heavy sound they are inspired by with the style they've been doung lately like a vheissu part 2 I would like a few more intricate lead guitar parts and diverse song structures

 

i'm just hoping tour later this year coincides with the album release

 

God, I'd trade Luis1988888's arm and leg for a Dead Wake and Open Your Eyes-sounding record.

 

@Ricky's Law oh hell no!

 

as long as there's no more Dead Wake choruses I'm happy lol

 

I agree that chorus definitely makes the song feel like a b side but I like it when the song picks up towards the end

 

Did they ever talk about why Vheissu is tuned slightly flat from the standard 440 hertz tuning? I always thought that was pretty cool and maybe made vheissu sound even more unique also their use of rhodes piano and volume pedal swells are two of my favorite things on that album

 

That's a former Horizons/West a-side you're talking about. Tread lightly.

 

Dead Wake rips

 

Horizons/East was a definite step-up from Palms, which I'm pretty confident is their worst barring maybe the first record, but it still wasn't quite up to the snuff of their run from Vheissu to TBEITBN. Would love to love something from this band again.

 

What's strange for me, getting back to the discussion of b-sides earlier, is that I agree with you completely that Palms is one of their weakest records. But paired with Deeper Wells, it gains a lot in my book and is actually pretty solid.

H/E is their best post-hiatus output, though, and it's not close. Stoked if they can capture some of that flavor again with Horizons/West.

 

Palms is great.

 

There are dozens of us!

 

Horizons/East would be one of my favorite Thrice records if Dead Wake and Open Your Eyes were on it. In the past, they could get away with routinely leaving great songs off records because the records were already quite strong. But the last two would have greatly benefited from the added meat on the bone.

 

I just made my own edit of Palms+ (very original, I know). It really does hit, though! A few additions and subtractions give it the extra 10% that makes it a great album to me.