Thrice - Palms (September 14, 2018) Album • Page 212

Yikes palms vinyl gate continues

 

Holy Fawn - Death Spells

 

Your Sparkling Death Cometh is my favorite. One of my favorites of this decade actually. Rediscovered the band's discography recently and fell in love with that album all over again like it was the first time I'd heard it.

 

I feel kind of left-out having received exactly the vinyl variant I thought I was getting. But in all seriousness, good on them for working to rectify this stuff.

I need to spin this again soon. It's fallen out of my rotation due to the sheer volume of October releases.

 

If you don’t mind me asking... what did you order and what did you get?

 

Just the grey and black, nothing fancy.

 

Saw these dudes last night in SF
They sounded so good.

Set list was kinda strange but had some big highlights.

Only us is a dope cold opener. The synth is loud AF
Pines is maybe the best lyrical output they have since beggars. Really shined thru.
Got to hear Daedalus which i never thought I’d see again
Plus paper tigers still rips


What kind of bummed me out was I didn’t really enjoy the rest of the palms tracks live -
The grey felt paint by numbers
Hold up a light...is what it is
The dark - was Saved by the crowd outro

There is a set list of tracks off TBE and Palms that id really like to see. Based on what they actually played, I feel like im in the minority

 

Pretty sure I’ve heard Daedalus all four times I’ve seen them. I’m blessed.

 

Same, I've seen it a bunch. I think Daedalus is their go to song from Air/Earth just like Firebreather is their go to for Fire/Water.

 

Definitely appreciated Only Us way more after seeing it live

 

Yeah, this is going to end up my album of the year I think. Everything that I have been looking forward to has released and I've listened to it all, there hasn't been anything that has made me feel like "Beyond the Pines" does and as a whole I think this outdoes every other release this year. Closest competition with this is The Republic of Wolves "shrine".

 

my tastes to a T

 

This is probably my biggest letdown of the year right next to Underoath

 

Both those albums were great though!

 

That Underoath album was very forgettable. Palms still has some tracks that bring me back to it (Just Breathe, My Soul, PInes).

 

This at least has a couple of songs I like. I think there's maybe one redeemable Underoath song on that album

 

Both albums are in my top 5 for the year

 

Thrice is probably #1 for me. Underoath would probably be 3 or 4.

 

Gonna come back to this sometime over the next week.

Revisiting my favorites from the year. There aren’t many, but can I through the God of War OST into the mix? With RDR2 OST too?

I’m excited that this year shaped up how it did. That a record from (arguably) my favorite band wasn’t my favorite. So much great music this year.

 

This album is still great, just like Underoath.

 

I think if I combined the last two records (in some order)-

Hurricane
The Window
The long defeat
Death From Above
Whistleblower
Salt and Shadow
Only Us
Just Breathe
My Soul
Branch in the River
Blood on Blood
Pines

it would be my favorite Thrice record

 

I love both albums as is, but combining the best of TBE and Palms to make one incredible "what if" album could be fun. I'd probably go:

1. Hurricane
2. A Branch In the River
3. The Window
4. Just Breathe
5. The Long Defeat
6. Everything Belongs
7. Stay With Me
8. Only Us
9. Black Honey
10. Pines

 

Really surprised at the turn this thread took on this record tbh. Maybe it’s just because my expectations weren’t super high but I still think this is a really solid record and feel like it does wayyy more interesting things than either of their last two, even if it feels a little disjointed in places. I haven’t gone back to it super often but I’ve attributed that much more to the high volume of quality music coming out in the last quarter of 2018 rather than the quality of this record itself.

 

Palms Everywhere, Palms Nowhere

1. A Branch in the River
2. Sea Change
3. The Window
4. Just Breathe
5. Death from Above
6. Whistleblower
7. Blood on Blood
8. The Long Defeat
9. Seneca
10. Black Honey
11. Stay with Me
12. Beyond the Pines

It's hard to sequence TBE songs with Palms since many of the TBE songs bleed into the next, but I did my best. When people say TBE is more cohesive than Palms, the carryover effects play a major role in that feeling (as well as tonal consistency across most songs). Palms left some spaces in between songs, but effects rarely bled over into each subsequent track since they were so unique from each other.

 

Returning to this today.

Also, continuing to be ignored by Epitaph and KingsRoad. Oh well. Not worth my time.