A City By The Light Divided
by Thursday
  • Record Label: Island
  • Release Date: May 2, 2006
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. Alternative Press
    100
    City 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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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    This is the Jersey qunitet's most riff-heavy, unified work yet. [28 Apr 2006, p.136]
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  3. Stylus Magazine
    91
    Their previous efforts have now paid off, culminating in a condensed treatise of confusion, longing, and maturation.
  5. The A.V. Club
    83
    Lush-yet-powerful songs that neither abandon the band's roots nor wallow in them.
  6. AllMusic
    80
    Thursday simply sound like a superior version of themselves.
  7. Blender
    80
    A widescreen goth-punk stunner. [Jun 2006, p.144]
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  8. Billboard
    70
    A quality album. [6 May 2006]
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  9. New Musical Express (NME)
    70
    [It] signpost[s] a possible future for emo. [29 Apr 2006, p.39]
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  10. PopMatters
    70
    While the album works superbly as a cohesive whole, the individual tracks have a tendency to get bogged down in their own melodrama.
  11. Q Magazine
    70
    A mightily heavy and punky album. [Jul 2006, p.119]
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Awards & Rankings

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#90 Most Shared Album of 2006

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User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 36 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 36
  3. Negative: 3 out of 36
  1. JClS
    Jun 26, 2007
    8
    This album is PERFECT!
  2. JackG.
    Dec 6, 2006
    9
    I think Rolling Stone magazine gives music bad reviews for the attention. I dip into punk and emo from time to time and am usually I think Rolling Stone magazine gives music bad reviews for the attention. I dip into punk and emo from time to time and am usually disappointed. I liked full collapse forever ago and I heard this disc woudl be good so i picked it up. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. It isn't going to win best album of the century, but any douche bag that gives it a 30 is doing so for shock value only. Any review in the red has been made by a reviewer with a gross misunderstanding of punk music. A few more albums with this trend of maturation and they could very well make one of the best albums of the century.… Full Review »
  3. JosephF
    Oct 23, 2006
    9
    This is a great album...not the best album of thursday(war all the time) but simply very good..keep up the good work..
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