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Reveal your sources

 

Does it matter if this album is Horizons West, so long as they're still releasing new music this far into their career?

 

Yes. The people demand closure.

But seriously, I don't know why this is still a question. The blurb on that site says Horizons West. There's no mystery.

 

Can’t stop thinking about last night’s show. Went with my brother who’s never really listened to their pre-Vheissu stuff so the first thing he said when they finished was « I didn’t know they were this heavy?? » lol.

Feels odd that until the re-recording, I also would barely listen to The Artist In The Ambulance and now it’s genuinely one of my favorites. Revisiting it was such a good move.

I’d love to hear them do something similar with Identity Crisis and The Illusion Of Safety further down the line, if they’re in between album cycles. I’m so ready for new music though, that snippet is stuck in my head.

We also had Coilguns as the opening band and they were furious. I bet Riley picked them because they had that noisy, sludgy post-hardcore feel I associate with his taste. Strongly recommend them for fans of The Armed, Birds In Row, KEN Mode…

 

Well a nice dream I had

 

Dustin has mentioned not being against rerecording deadbolt but as badass as it would be I doubt they would ever want to a rerecording of illusion of safety or identity crisis also my girlfriend had a similar experience when we went to see thrice play the illusion of safety live her previous experience was when they toured for horizon east and that setlist was really mellow

 

That quote feels like it was written by AI, saying 'their recent albums, including Horizons/East and its follow-up Horizons/West' in past tense. Maybe H/W, maybe not!

 

Google shows that same blurb being used on multiple ticketing sites, including Ticketmaster.

THRICE Tickets, 2025 Concert Tour Dates | Ticketmaster

 

hopefully they are using past tense cause the album is meant to be out before the tour

 

Right. I suspect this was a press release bit of text written up by the label for advertising purposes. You'll notice Tate's write-up includes the same wording verbatim, except it doesn't mention West.

My guess is that two different press release documents were given out by the label, with the one Tate posted to be used at this time and the one we are seeing at venues' websites intended to be used nearer to the date of the album release. I think the venues screwed up in posting the wrong text and let the cat out of the bag about West.

 

That cat has been on the loose for years.

 

How hot of a take is it to say that nothing that came after Major/Minor is better than it? (To Be Everywhere is its equal)

 

With Palms I can see an argument for that but Horizons is a really cool album with some experimental stuff thrown in. That’s the thrice I love

 

It’s a bad take, that’s for sure. All 3 post-hiatus albums are better than M/m.

 

I think Palms left such a bad taste in my mouth that it unfairly tarnished Horizons. I'll give it more proper spins.

 

Major/Minor is my least favorite non-Identity Crisis album. It feels middle of the road and I only revisit a few songs (Call It In The Air, Blinded, Blur and Yellow Belly). They bounced back with To Be Everywhere, then lost me a little bit again with Palms. That one had more of a tracklisting issue though, as the Deeper Wells songs are miles above some of the album tracks.

Horizons is their best since Beggars, even one of my favorites at this point. A neat continuation of the sound they settled on in the latter part of their career while bringing back the arty vibes and experimentation of Vheissu and The Alchemy Index.

 

I made a playlist with Artist Revisited, To Be Everywhere, and Horizons that I’ve been listening to a bit on shuffle, to try and get back into the band. I’ll still listen to Beggars and Artist Revisited, and I listen to each new album when it drops and go “yeah that’s good,” but I just haven’t had the fandom I had when they stopped after M/M.

Every time a song from Horizon comes on, it really stands out in such a great way. Honestly didn’t remember it being this strong. If it’d come out when I had that momentum, it’d be an easy top 3 album of theirs for me; still may get there pretty soon.

 

Palms is my favorite post hiatus.

Beggars
Alchemy Index
Vheissu
Artist
Palms
TBE
Horizons East
Major/minor
Illusion
Identity

 

Palms is very good though.

I would put my top M/m tracks (Yellow Belly, Promises, Call It In the Air, Blur, Anthology, and Disarmed) up against my top tracks from Palms (The Grey, Just Breathe, Everything Belongs, A Branch In the River, Blood On Blood, and Beyond the Pines) and probably give the edge to Palms, if only slightly.

And that doesn't even take into account the steep drop (IMO) from those M/m tracks to the rest of the album vs. Palms which drops to more mid-tier quality.

Plus, if we're including Deeper Wells, then Palms has the best song of the bunch with "In This Storm".

 

major minor is basically a perfect album to me. palms has hold up a light which is dreadful, and while there are some cool ideas here and there, i feel like the album has no flow at all. to me, horizons shows off the inventive side of the band much better, and the production/mix is top notch. i remember hearing color of the sky for the first time and being wowed by how big it sounded.

 

While not one of my top tracks, I still love "Hold Up a Light". It's a jam to sing along to and I would easily take it over any of the M/m tracks I didn't name in my last post.

 

I love Palms. Always have. I've made that known here pretty vocally. I've also been equally vocal about my extreme dislike of M/m. So this conversation is wild to me haha.

My M/m through post-hiatus ranking would be:

Palms
Horizons

TBE










M/m

 

Overall rankings get tough, but Vheissu and Beggars are 1a/1b, no question, followed by Artist + Revisited, which really reignited my love for that album. And M/m and Identity are at the bottom.

Alchemy, Illusion, and the 3 post-hiatus records are in the middle but can kind of shuffle around. I would probably put Horizons and TBE over Palms, at least most days, but not sure exactly where Alchemy and Illusion slot in.

 

Vheissu is a flawless record, I maintain that it was the greatest improvement in style, songwriting, and experimentation between any two Thrice albums.

My hot take that I've also maintained for years is that Beggars was kind of a letdown after Vheissu/Alchemy Index even though it makes sense as a logical progression