Thursday - Common Existence

Epitaph Records . 02/17/2009 . written by Oliver . genre: Emo/ Post-Hardcore/ Screamo . format: CD

Post-Hardcore pioneers Thursday from New Brunswick, return with their fifth studio album. They started out on New Jersey indie label Eyeball records (My Chemical Romance, Pompej, E For Explosion) in 1999. These Smiths loving post-hardcore-punks were signed to every good label, along Victory records and Island records. Their new release "Common Existence" got released trough Epitaph records on February 17th, 2009. Dave Fridaman, who also worked with Mogwai and The Flaming Lips really produced a high-quality album indeed. "Common Existence" contains eleven smashing Emo-Rock-Screamo-Post-Hardcore tracks, which are kept in the typical Thursday manner. This means you can expect pretty dark and haunting tracks, lead by Geoff Rickly, who has such a stunning and impressive voice. The new album really contains a lot of good tracks. One of my favourite ones is called "Friends In The Armed Forces", with guest vocals from Walter Schriefels, who has played for Youth Of Today and sung in Quicksand. This track is pretty dark and I really adore the gnarly guitars and the well done chorus. "Beyond The Visible Spectrum" is another spectacular track, with spinning guitars and violin. The most well known track might be "Resuscitation Of A Dead Man", with guest vocals from Tim McIlrath from Rise Against. Many sites - including ours - offered a free download for that track. The most outstanding track on "Common Existence" might be "Love Has Led Us Astray" - a song with a pretty strange melody. To me this sounds like a pretty dark mixture between AFI/ Blaq Audio/ The Cure/ Keane and The Smiths. Anyway, I honestly need to admit, that I really like this great release. It turned out really well, but to me their release from 2001 (Full Collapse) is unbeatable. Tracks like "Paris in Flames" or "Understanding in a Car Crash" definitely belong to the very best songs that I have ever experienced. On "Common Existence" I can find brilliant songs too - even their new track "Subway Funeral" reminds me a lot to the good old times. The record ends with a stunning and real melodic track, called "You were the cancer". The refrain is just mindblowing, constisting of pretty hard Screamo elements and the use of synthesizer makes this track sound so perfect. Nevertheless their new album does not has the power and the same persuasive power like Full Collapse once showed.

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