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A City By The Light Divided
by Thursday

Thursday reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 75 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.1 out of 10
based on 14 reviews
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The New Jersey emo-rockers (not to be confused with the day of the week of the same name) are back with a fourth album, with Dave Fridmann producing.

LABEL: Island
RELEASE DATE: 02 May 2006
DISCS: 1 disc
GENRE(S): Alternative, Rock, Emo

What The Critics Said

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100
Alternative Press
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]
91
Entertainment Weekly
This is the Jersey qunitet's most riff-heavy, unified work yet. [28 Apr 2006, p.136]
91
Stylus Magazine
Their previous efforts have now paid off, culminating in a condensed treatise of confusion, longing, and maturation.
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83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Lush-yet-powerful songs that neither abandon the band's roots nor wallow in them.
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80
All Music Guide
Thursday simply sound like a superior version of themselves.
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80
Blender
A widescreen goth-punk stunner. [Jun 2006, p.144]
70
Billboard
A quality album. [6 May 2006]
70
New Musical Express
[It] signpost[s] a possible future for emo. [29 Apr 2006, p.39]
70
PopMatters
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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70
Q Magazine
A mightily heavy and punky album. [Jul 2006, p.119]
60
Uncut
A sprinkle of Flaming Lips fairy-dust may be just what the genre needs to slip its genre straitjacket. [Jul 2006, p.114]
60
NOW Magazine
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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58
Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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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30
Rolling Stone
Aside from Fridmann's studio expertise, there's little here that elevates Thursday above the followers they disdain.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this album is 8.1 (out of 10) based on 33 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jack G. gave it a9:
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.

Joseph F gave it a9:
This is a great album...not the best album of thursday(war all the time) but simply very good..keep up the good work..

Bobby K gave it an8:
A very solid piece of art by Thursday...riveting, haunting, eerie, cathartic, this album is tinged with Explosions in the Sky and Godspeed You! Black Emperor passages on some tracks. Still, Thursday's songwriting needs work, and this CD simply isn't as complex and beautiful as it could be.

super mrawesome gave it a10:
A positively wonderful album, i wasnt sure at first listen but after seeing them live this has become my favorite album

Peenskrank Portobello gave it a10:
Fuck Rolling Stone Magazine. I guess they think trashing this album will up their intellectual credibility.

Idioteque gave it a7:
Good Album, considering that I don't like scremo, or emo, however this a delightful exception! About OK.......It absolutly IS one of the greatest albums of all time. That fact as been consistently reenforced by countless music critics and RH fans worldwide.

TOTO gave it an8:
This album from thursday it's ok, especially if you don't think in other work done before, this genre has been listened before and that's all. Stop mention OK computer when you talk about this Cd just for one reason: It doesn't makes any sense, and Radiohead can not be the reference for every album in the world. Furthermore, Ok Computer is not that good (forget it, it was released on 90's, enough!!).

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