Thursday / Envy
Split
LP
Temporary
Residence Ltd.
Genre: post- hardcore, screamo
USA / Japan
Jan 24, 2009 |
America's Thursday and Japan's Envy team up for this
noisy split, an intriguing artefact from two of the world's eminent
screamo/post-hardcore acts. Thursday's epic anthems comprise
the more accessible side of this LP, replete with emotional vocals and
blazing, spacey guitars. “As He Climbed the Dark Mountain” and “An
Absurd and Unrealistic Dream of Peace” are melodic post-hardcore
explosions, perhaps a bit melodramatic yet nonetheless
remarkably solid. Instrumental “In Silence” and its remix (done
by Mercury Rev's Anthony Molina), meanwhile, are
stunning moodpieces led melodically by piano and ringing guitar.
Envy's side, meanwhile, begins with the beautiful (albeit
uncharacteristic) “An Umbrella Fallen into Fiction,” a twinkling pop
instrumental that builds to a melodic metal finale. It's one of the
best things I've heard from the band. The remaining two tracks are
closer to the chaotic post-hardcore the band is famous for, but
somehow more refined and sensitive. Taken together, it's the most
accessible batch of tracks I've heard from the fivepiece. Well done.
thursday's
myspace
80%
youuuuuuuutube!:
thursday's "war all the time",
envy's "scene"
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 7 tracks, distributed by
the
label,
released 2008] |
