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Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
September 18th 2021


47985 Comments

Album Rating: 4.1

lol guess this is their best since Beggars? bar is low as shit but still



Dustin and Ed screaming together at the end of Summer Set Fire single-handedly justifies the reunion

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
September 18th 2021


47985 Comments

Album Rating: 4.1

good lord Dandelion Wine whips too

gravityswitch
September 18th 2021


2127 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

So I guess it's obvious but is it the first part of a double album with Horizons / West as the next one?

treos777
September 18th 2021


596 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

definitely best album since reunion for sure

XSebbyMcMuffinX
September 18th 2021


490 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Why does this keep getting compared to Beggars? Why is that the landmark? I think it sounds more like it's between M/m and To Be. Kind of campy and sonically predictable, but mixed with some of the newer accessible sensibilities and sometimes darker tinge.

Still waiting for something to hit again like Hurricane or Salt and Shadow or The Long Defeat did when they came back. Or The Window. I was a lot more excited 5 years ago.

Sowing
Moderator
September 18th 2021


44509 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Beggars is one of Thrice's very best records, so yeah, this is not like Beggars at all



Edit: Settled on a 3.0. I'm a huge Thrice fan though so that score is indicative of a pretty significant letdown. I actually like Palms quite a bit better.

Digging: Halsey - The Great Impersonator

PickleVai17
September 18th 2021


209 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Beggars is lyrically thrices best album in my opinion, but I think major minor is their best album overall. Palms ain't bad but there's only three songs on there I truly like

onionbubs
September 18th 2021


22172 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

seen a lot of ppl who have been lukewarm on their recent material say this is the best theyve sounded in a while so i gotta get to it today. beggars is the last album i really care about outside of a few songs on m/m



(also given horizons/west is coming eventually im already prepared to playlist the shit out of this if i dont like some of it)

Sowing
Moderator
September 18th 2021


44509 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Both Beggars and M/M had weaker tracks, but there was more sonic variation on the former (and as you mentioned, the best lyrics of their entire discog). Post-hiatus, their lyrics and creativity have really stagnated. I could get into Palms because it was catchy at least. This one, I dunno. The "experimentation" is pretty weak by their standards and few tracks stand out. Thrice usually grows so we'll see, but the early returns on this are pretty low.

whitecastle142
September 18th 2021


19 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Lotta hate for "Buried in the Sun" here. To me, it's an album highlight... Taken on its own it's a bit ordinary, but on an album as multilayered and complex as Horizons/East, sometimes it's just fun to throw in a 3-minute palate cleanser to rock out to.



Sure, the lyrics on it are cringe, but they're Dylan-esque compared to the garbage we were fed on "TBEITBN"

letsgofishing
September 18th 2021


1705 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

"I actually like Palms quite a bit better."



You're weird.

onionbubs
September 18th 2021


22172 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

nothing here is like mindblowingly good but its all pretty solid so ill take it



think the closer may actually be my top here

Project
September 18th 2021


5901 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

sometimes I wish Thrice would put their soft ethereal closers somewhere else in the tracklist so it didn't feel like an obligatory tacked-on ending, and they could actually incorporate it organically into the album

onionbubs
September 18th 2021


22172 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

as long as i get my soft ethereal thrice somewhere i dont rlly care where it is but yea that would be more interesting

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
September 18th 2021


47985 Comments

Album Rating: 4.1

"Why does this keep getting compared to Beggars? Why is that the landmark?"



it was their last good album and is also their best



this doesn't sound like it at all, you're correct there but it does sound billions of degrees more interesting than the last 3 "what if thrice but boring Octane radio rock?" albums

gravityswitch
September 18th 2021


2127 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Major/minor is better than Beggars tho

Larkinhill
September 18th 2021


7934 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Agreed, M/M > Beggars

Feather
September 18th 2021


10534 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Have yet to listen to the new album, but got say that I saw them live at Riot yesterday and they are still crushing it. Wasn’t big on the tracks they played from this though

XingKing
September 18th 2021


16199 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

M/M is better than Beggars [3]



Also I think this keeps getting compared to Beggars because sonically, there are definitely some similarities in the writing department, not to mention Teppei engineered both albums and that's been a big talking point in every review or bit of press I've seen for this.

StickFeit
September 18th 2021


2313 Comments


M/M is better than Beggars [4]

M/M was my introduction to the band so it will hold a special place



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