Album Rating: 4.0

That's kind bro, thanks. I'm happy to wait though .

Album Rating: 3.0

Hot take: Hold Up a Light is one of the better songs here. It has quite a bit more energy and punch to it when compared to tracks like My Soul and Everything Belongs, even if it is a bit on the "butt rock" side of things.

Album Rating: 3.0

I don't think it's as bad as others here do, but I definitely wouldn't put it at the top of the album.



I like it better than The Dark and Everything Belongs.

Album Rating: 3.0

I'd put Hold Up a Light in about the bottom of my top 5 tbh

Album Rating: 3.0

Almost halvsies!

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XingKing, those almost exactly my thoughts about the EP rip I heard when someone from Reddit uploaded it. Stumbling West was dope, the others were pretty good but not exactly special. For what it's worth, the three of the tracks (excluding Deeper Wells here) are better than the average song on Palms

Album Rating: 2.5

Dammit I just listened through the Alchemy Index and remembered what it was like when Dustin was at the top of his game lyrically.

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Since the hiatus they've only written a couple songs worth anything in the lyrics department. No idea what happened to get Dustin to go from a versatile writer able to link together theology, literature, and current events to the generic rock singer who talks about "the dark" and just breathing

Album Rating: 4.0

My suspicion with Dustin is that he has become aesthetically drawn to those gifted singer/song-writers who write pretty straightforward lyrics that nonetheless manage to be profound and relatable. He might view his past use of allegory and more cryptic lyricism as a tad pretentious and in violation of this new, more "honest" aesthetic ideal he has set himself. Sadly, Dustin's attempts at down-to-earth simplicity just embroil him in empty clichés. Someone needs to sit him down and tell him that he is squandering his lyrical gifts in pursuit of being the kind of lyricist that just isn't him.

Album Rating: 2.5

Just hoping the next album is an improvement. Palms isn’t a bad album, but it’s very forgettable.

Album Rating: 2.0

I think Dustin is trying to have a broader appeal with his lyrics while completely missing the fact that us non-religious folks were still in awe of his writing. I'd say their last two albums have one song each that really showcases what he's capable of lyrically.

Album Rating: 2.5

That's the thing; his earlier work was hyper-religious but he excelled (for the most part) in making it accessible no matter what your background is. The master stroke of the Alchemy Index sonnets (all of which contain his most striking lyrical work, imo) is that they simultaneously represent the thoughts of God AND the thoughts of their given element, providing pretty rich commentary whether you see them as exploring theological or environmental/political ideas (or both).

The number one most disappointing thing about modern Thrice to me is the distinct lack of ambition. I miss the band that just fucking went for it, whether it was weird jazz piano interludes, or a monstrous genre-spanning four-EP concept album. Aside from a few standouts every song they've made in the last few years has been completely unsurprising.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah the lack of ambition is the real problem. These guys never recovered from overexerting themselves on Alchemy Index. That album cycle broke them. And while their "we're just gonna jam and make songs that come more easily to us" attitude still gave us a couple good records (including my fav, Beggars), it's not working any more. They need to reconnect with their past ambitious drive.

Album Rating: 3.0

Go look at their monthly Spotify streams and you'll understand why they went this route.

Album Rating: 3.0

and their tour with bring me the horizon

Album Rating: 2.5

that’s an unpardonable sin

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I think you hit the nail on the head, kingjulian. There have been little flashes of ambition but the two post-hiatus albums feel pretty half-hearted compared to the overwhelming passion that they had earlier in their career. I've seen them twice in the past 2 years and they still have that passion when they play live, but something got lost in the studio when they went to write these songs.

Album Rating: 2.5

I DO like everything they've done since Alchemy (aside from this, which is 15% good, 50% mediocre and 35% terrible) to varying degrees, though. To Be Everywhere in particular is a really solid (if unremarkable) record pretty much all the way through.

Album Rating: 2.5

To Be Everywhere is really solid with only a few mediocre songs. This is the only album of theirs I don’t really like. But still, it’s not a bad album. Just a disappointing one.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

To Be Everywhere was still below par for them. Lyrically, it couldn't really hold up outside of Hurricane, The Window, and Salt and Shadow. But at least it was there musically for the most part.



I feel like Wake Up is a worse song than Hold Up a Light