Thrice - Palms (September 14, 2018) Album • Page 108

Oh I didn't mean that as a bad thing, I love Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters! And yeah, Branch in the River is definitely the heaviest track on this.

 

a branch in the river sounds like the heaviest songs on beggars (at the last) had an angry, meaner older brother

 

hold up a light is almost a little too blues rock for my taste

 

I still havnt listened to this

 

You're a stronger man than me...

 

blood on blood is a fantastic pentultimate track

 

this closer is lush


gotta admit a lot of this is softer than i was expecting. i predict there will be an inclination to call this a more experimental thrice album but im not so sure. or rather, i think thats half of whats going on here. they've played with synths before, messing with different sounds isnt really the new thing here. whats new is how these songs are composed and structured from the ground up. theres a lot of things going on you can trace back to beggars, alchemy, and vheissu but these things are recontextualized for modern thrice. blood on blood for example takes the composition format you could find on earth but ends up sounding absolutely nothing like anything on that EP.

 

Don’t have a computer atm so I’m just gonna wait for streaming on Friday, but all these reactions to Branch in the River have me VERY hyped.

 

Going dark on this thread until I listen.

 

Did you not listen to their last record? It's pretty heavy..

 

Pun intended?

 

I listened on repeat until 4 am.

 

i dont really fuck with hold up a light. other than that this may be the best collection of thrice songs that exists. that doesnt necessarily mean i think its their best album....yet

 

I wish i liked The Dark as much as everyone else. For me the standouts are Just Breathe, A Branch In the River, Hold Up A Light, Blood on Blood and Beyond the Pines

 

Seems like people think Hold Up A Light is the Wake Up of the album? *shrug* i like it

 

You left off My Soul idiot.

 

I was like, “Dang. This is so uncharacteristic of him... Give the dude a break for having an opini—oh.”

 

Haha yeah first glance it makes me look like a dick haha. I’m only mean to myself

 

I relate.

 

The hate for Hold Up a Light that I’m seeing is baffling.

 

football starts today I don't have the attention to give this dammit

 

So I found out this leaked at 4 am. Listened to it twice until 6 am (I suck so bad). First listen I found the album very jarring, I think a lot of this is new territory for them. Second listen I really started to appreciate a lot of those songs. I love the ethereal feel some of these songs have. I think my initial standouts (not counting the singles) are The Dark, Just Breathe, Blood on Blood, and Beyond the Pines.

So excited to listen to this more

 

Oh I love TBEITBN and how heavy it is. What I mean by "heavier heavy" is like a Hold Fast Hope or Firebreather that just melts your face. The closest they got to that sort of thing on TBEITBN was "Death From Above" or "Whistleblower" which were great, but I dunno if I'd put them on that level.

 

I don't see much hate, I think it's just not in people's favorites on the record. I personally love it.