Thursday Band • Page 22

They just have such an effective sense of urgency. And the vocals sound so floating above everything else, so angelic but disconnected, that mixed with the tightest fucking rhythm section I've heard in some time, well, man, it's just about too much for me.

 

Thursday is always my go to example of a band firing on all cylinders at all times. All 6 members perform at their best in every song.

 

Alright, starting ACBTLD. The streak remains alive halfway through the opener. Very strong out the gate.

EDIT: Yeah, the solo during the "Don't look away" part fully sold me, haha.

 

They're like if Circa Survive weren't so up their own ass.

 

The end of The Other Side of the Crash is one of my favorite Thursday moments ever.

 

Seriously, this is one of the most in-sync drum/bass duos I've ever heard in a band from this scene.

#codygetsintothursdayonathursday

 

have you got to At This Velocity yet

 

One away. "54321" was my least favorite of any of the songs off the three records yet, but still good. The opener slayed.

EDIT: Really liking the macabre lyrics in "Sugar in the Sacrament." Like a more morbid ManOrch.

 

yeah thats probably their most....mainstream? song. Geoff has likened it to a Taking Back Sunday song. Lyrically its top notch but musically its a bit generic. But it got them some deserved attention from several bigger publications and stations.

 

Fuck

 

my favorite Thursday song. the sheer fucking idea of using a mathematical equation of an airplane freefalling is brilliant.

 

Arc-Lamps interlude is groovy, but I don't think it fits on this record. I mean, they just had a song based around a math equation. Everything felt so calculated, chosen, but this interlude in comparison is mad meandering. Fun to listen to in its own right, but not in the context of this particular album. Too jammy.

#firstcomplaint

 

Arc lamps is the dividing light, though!

 

Ha, whoops. I definitely wasn't following the themes that closely.

 

Welp, took down half this band's discography in a night. Safe to say I'm a big fucking fan right off the bat. As far as enjoyment went, there was maybe about 2 or 3 minutes total across the three records that I didn't like, but No Devolucion was far and away the best, with Common Existence a relatively close second and City by the Light Divided pretty deep in third (some real high highs here, but the least affected I felt by a whole album of theirs).

These guys fucking rock a lot. I'm all of a sudden incredibly excited alongside all of you that they're 'back.'

 

And you know what, audible. I got the day off tomorrow so we're just gonna fuckin' plow right onto into War All the Time here.

#trainkeptarollin

 

Yes! By far my favorite.

 

First thoughts: Same lyrical power, but musically, a lot simpler. Feels early in their career even if I didn't know it was. Much more straightforward. Still solid playing all across the board, into it for sure, but hopefully there's a little more depth as we go on.

EDIT: Trying to better verbalize how i feel. It has less...separating it from the early TBS/Your Fave Weapon sounds from all those bands at that time.

 

Okay, about three songs in, and am I crazy, or is this way different? This sounds so much like all the other scene bands I grew up on and way less of the individuality I saw on the last three records and I'm less into it. Is it the production? I swear something's different, haha.

EDIT: Five songs in and I might've been a bit hasty. I've liked tracks five and really, really liked #4.

 

It's definitely more post hardcore, but I in no way think that it sounds like a taking back Sunday record. The production is way different on watt and full collapse vocals are way more prominent in the mix

 

Yeah, TBS was a silly comparison. It just definitely sounds way more rough around the edges. Feels like a different phase than the three records I just came from.

 

FC and WATT are the most "basic" of the big 5. There's still a bit of experimentation, Andrew joining had a big part of that I think. WATT is the heavier of the Thursday records, a bit more generic but still retaining that dark, aggressive edge that undercuts all of their records.

Division St was my first Thursday song. That hook.

 

Yeah, I'd say I agree with this. I thought "This Song Brought To You By A Falling Bomb" was an effective interlude, actually, and this album has a lot of moments that remind me of the things I loved on those first three albums I listened to, but it's just being performed in a style I don't dig quite as much.

 

It's funny watching your reaction to their sound Cody as you're going backwards. It's like the opposite to how fans at the time felt when ACBTLD came out as that was so jarring with what came before. I remember Counting 5-4-3-2-1 being received particularly negatively as the first single and the album getting mixed feedback online, especially as demos from that album leaked way in advance which people fell in love with and sounded a lot cleaner than before Dave Fridmann's final production.

Also, don't forget to check out their split with Envy and Kill the Houselights (which has 3 new songs plus a load of b-sides/demos and a Live DVD)