Thrice - Horizons/East (September 17 digital, October 8 physical) Album • Page 32

Why does everything have to be ranked, it gets old. Who cares?

 

vheissu
alchemy
taita
tbeitbn
beggars
palms
h/e
tios

m/m

 

This website specifically seemed to resonate really hard with Beggars compared with the rest of the Thrice fandom and I wonder what it is about this demographic and that album.

 

Because you are listening to a Vagrant Records advanced promotional stream.

 

holy shit this is good

this record is like the feeling I had when I heard the harp come in on "Blood on Blood" stretched out to 40 minutes

 

I love the “early 2000s screamo” vibe they go for at the end of Summer Set Fire to the Rain.

 

The last 1:30 of Still Life is just incredible, like damn damn.

 

My last play through thought is this feels like the album that was suppose to come after Beggars. Maybe because they were both self produced, but it’s just got the Beggars vibe, heavy but chill and groovy. I think the lyrics connect in a way but still decoding….but at the same time this album is its own thing and you hear Palms and TBEITBN influences sprinkled in too.

 

I still want more aggression and screams from Kensrue, I’ll be honest…but there’s some really great heavy parts on this I can’t complain. I just miss that fire from back in the day that we only get teased of now.

 

I can't understand all the hate Major/minor gets. It has some duds (Listen Through Me, for sure), but it's full of really good songs.

Yellow Belly? Banger.
Promises? A hit.
Blinded? I love you, Riley. It has become my favorite song over time.
Cataracts? Grooooooovy.
Blur? Good ol' Thrice.
Words in the water? Pure bliss.
Anthology? One of their finest tracks.
Disarmed? Just beautiful.

Treading Paper and Call it in the air can be a little 'meh', but... I mean, it's full o great, great SONGS, and that's what's all about.

 

Can I just say how grateful I am to have another new Thrice record? I'm still so amped that one of my all time favorites is still making great music, especially after the hiatus and thinking I might never hear anything new from them.

I've listened to this probably about 4 times at this point in full. This one is a little tough for me as I don't think there was much that truly jumped out at me the way some tracks on the last two full lengths did. A lot of the tones and textures feel really "Thrice" - specifically Eddie's bass tone and some of the heavier guitar tracks. That's not necessarily a complaint, it's just that the instant familiarity maybe softened that initial "wow" factor that this album would have had if it had come out earlier in their discography.

 

I am ready to see all of the lyrical interpretations. I’ve been parsing through them for a good bit now, and don’t find it as second nature as I used to.

 

Have you ever been to this website

 

No

 

That’s where I’m at. I like it, but nothing makes me what to go back and listen back to back or anything.

I know it’s different sonically but to me it feels kind of like more of the same.

 

Do you think Kensrue will post a reading list like last time? That was really interesting and useful.

 

My top two are Vheissu and Beggars. Bottom 3 are IC, TBE, and M/m.

 

99% of the time, when I look up live videos of bands, the vocalist is all over the place. It is incredible how on point Dustin is vocally in a live setting, in some ways better than the studio recordings.

 

I've grabbed the bass and learned by ear a couple of tracks. There you have it:

Hope they're useful and you enjoy it. I have a lot more on my channel.

 

Probably spun this a dozen times over the last 24 hours. Wasn’t big on Still Life the first couple listens but now I adore it—big Pelican vibes on that one. Also love how Buried in the Sun sounds like a punchier, angrier Cataracts. This is truly the Breckinbros’ record, those guys are absolute monsters on every single track.

 

I liked this a lot on first listen but man is this a grower. I'm becoming obsessed. It really feels like such a complete work, whereas TBE and Palms were a collection of great songs and some okay ones. It has such a mysterious/hopeful/dark vibe to it.

I don't know where that speculation about Unitive East and the closer of West being played together came from but that sounds so damn cool

 

Thrice Urges You To Be Present While They Continue To Expand Their Musical Horizons On 'Horizons/East' - Substream Magazine

Cool interview with Dustin.



‘Unitive/East’ ends the album with a collision of piano and layered vocals. I know that there might be a possible second part to this album. This song feels like a to-be-continued.

Yeah, it’s a segway. It’s also sort of a bookend with the first song on the record. This was not totally intentional, but that image of the last line of the record is “new grass beneath black skies.” At the end of the first part of the first song, it’s the character emerging into this pre-dawn with grass beneath their feet. So, it’s looking back to that. For me, that image is very much about the possibility and hope that something new is coming.

It has a feeling like it’s leading into something. Yes, it’s leading into what will end up being Horizons/West. I don’t know when that will come up, but it’s partially completed and written. We’ll be finishing that up later this year and early next year. Yes, I mean, it’ll be a companion record. Most of it will have been written in the same period. Some of it was even recorded simultaneously, but it’ll be much more linked than other separate

 

Oh man. One of my favorite farewell tour cuts they brought out. So good live

 

What I’ve heard of this so far has been really good.

I haven’t been able to be excited about Thrice post hiatus the way I used to be (I don’t think due to the quality so much as me being in a different place), but my first listen to most of this is the closest I’ve gotten to that this past decade. Especially now that I ain’t getting new mewithoutYou albums anymore, it’d be nice to really get back into these guys.