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Alternative PressCity is a rare thing: a disc that reconciles a band's need for discovery with the familiar characteristics that define them. [Jun 2006, p.171]
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Entertainment WeeklyThis is the Jersey qunitet's most riff-heavy, unified work yet. [28 Apr 2006, p.136]
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Their previous efforts have now paid off, culminating in a condensed treatise of confusion, longing, and maturation.
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Lush-yet-powerful songs that neither abandon the band's roots nor wallow in them.
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Thursday simply sound like a superior version of themselves.
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BlenderA widescreen goth-punk stunner. [Jun 2006, p.144]
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BillboardA quality album. [6 May 2006]
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New Musical Express (NME)[It] signpost[s] a possible future for emo. [29 Apr 2006, p.39]
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While the album works superbly as a cohesive whole, the individual tracks have a tendency to get bogged down in their own melodrama.
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Q MagazineA mightily heavy and punky album. [Jul 2006, p.119]
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While the rest of the band have proven they can write solid music, it's singer Geoff Rickly who presents the biggest problem, and that's mostly because the man simply cannot tone down his over-emoting.
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UncutA sprinkle of Flaming Lips fairy-dust may be just what the genre needs to slip its genre straitjacket. [Jul 2006, p.114]
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Working on the humane assumption that all screamo records can't be equally horrible, the reviewerati have singled out this big-ticket effort... Unburdened by theory, however, I find that its distinction boils down to slightly subtler tunecraft and dynamic range.
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Aside from Fridmann's studio expertise, there's little here that elevates Thursday above the followers they disdain.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 36
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Mixed: 3 out of 36
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Negative: 3 out of 36
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JClSJun 26, 2007This album is PERFECT!
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JackG.Dec 6, 2006
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JosephFOct 23, 2006This is a great album...not the best album of thursday(war all the time) but simply very good..keep up the good work..