I don't listen to pre-streams or leaks in general. So I'm just now getting it. Yeah, I know, I'm a total fag.

im writing about thrice for byvolume and anthology is all i talk about it's easily the most interesting song on here

i'd clap

if I was impressed

i can't decide if this is a 4 or a 4.5... leaning towards the latter

last four songs are perfect

Album Rating: 3.0

words in the water is the only track i keep coming back to

call it in the air is so good. i adore how this band more than any can do urgent without being aggressive.

also it flows into beggars really nicely

Call it In the Air was the first-time standout for me as well. It sounded similar to something like Like Moths to Flame or The Arsonist. Epic track.

Probably the only post-hardcore band I will still enjoy in forty years' time. Will get this at some stage.

Picked this up today.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Anyone else notice the similarties between "Call It In the Air" and the gas station scene from No Country For Old Men? Check out the last three lines:



No more stalling, no delay; you must call it out by light of day.

So heads or tails? There's nothing for it so put an end to your sidestepping.

Is it heads or tails? You can't ignore it; you stand to win or lose everything.



Just so eerily reminiscent of that scene and the way Chigur seems to have some sort of knowledge that we, and the poor gas station attendent, are not privy to.



Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkh6if8TL2U

Album Rating: 5.0

Haha! I saw that scene like two days before I got the vinyl and thought the exact same thing listening to Call it in the air. It was on the tv and I saw only that scene. Nothing more. Weird.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

So weird, right? So cool, too. I took a class in college called "Books To Film" and we did No Country For Old Men. One of the most common interpretations of Anton Chigur and his tendency to be alone and vague--and usually wear black--was that he represnted either death or fate, and that the coin toss is essentially what we broadly call "chance." The themes are so similar, it's fucking amazing if Dustin did that intentionally. I'd love to hear what he has to say about the similarities.



Oh, and Felix, thanks for breaking my balls about this record; it went from a 2.5 on first listen to a 4 on about the twentieth. I probably would have set it aside were it not for the strong arguments in its favor.

Album Rating: 5.0

Haha no probs! Glad you're finally digging it some more!



It most defiantly would have been. I should read No country for old men. I've only read the road from Cormac McCarthy but he can I can tell he's a great writer.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Yeah, I've read both of those novels, and if you enjoyed The Road, you would definitely enjoy No Country. It's so unreasonably well written and downright scary. I definitely recommend it highly, espcially if you liked the Coen Brothers' film.

Album Rating: 3.0

"thrice continue to walk the tightrope of perfection"

sure...

Album Rating: 5.0

I remember Dustin mentioning a McCarthy reference in an interview.



This album seriously is impossible to judge with less than like 4 listens, there is just way too much going on. Blur might be the mathiest thing they've ever written. The song structures on Blur and Call it in the Air are unlike anything they've written before. Also Major/Minor is the perfect title for this CD as the chord progressions are sooo weird, sometimes using the picardi third which is ending a minor progression with a major chord. soooo coooool.

okay album

Album Rating: 4.0

Best album of the year so far.