Summer Set Fire to the Rain is my favorite thrice song since Whistleblower in 2016. In terms of positives, there is no shortage on this album.
It is used very well and feels like the ending of a journey. The auto tone actually makes the track sound more expansive and mysterious. It has a serene piano with auto tone on Dustin’s vocals. The closing to the album ends with Unitive/East which is a fitting end to the emotional highs and lows of the album. It’s the perfect opening intro and the best way to set the stage for the record. When the song ends and explodes into Scavengers, the listener can't help but feel overwhelmed. His gritty vocals also pair really well with the slow synth building. Dustin’s vocal delivery truly packs a massive punch. The album opens with The Color of the Sky and perfectly sets the stage for what’s to come. This album delivers everything I wanted from a Thrice album. Yet again, Thrice defines all expectations of what we are expecting and drops a glorious album experience with a wide range of emotions and sounds. They did it again with their album To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere into their tech-rock album Palms. To go from a Post-Hardcore masterpiece like The Artist in the Ambulance, to an atmospheric rock album like Vheissu takes serious guts. They have made many genre bending choices in the past. It’s incredible how a band two decades old can continually reinvent their sound and make it flow so seamlessly. Horizons/East conveys a palpable sense of danger, determination, and possibility.As a massive fan of Thrice, I can confidently say this is some of their best work to date. Some of the writing even began with open-ended challenges that the band laid on themselves like building a song using the quartal chords they found in much of the jazz they loved, or taking the Fibonacci sequence and turning it into a guitar riff. Without surrendering any of the energy and hard edge of their previous albums, they’ve given us a profoundly meditative work, which serves as a musical summons to everyday attentiveness. With the new album, the band addresses, with candour and courage, the fragile and awkward arrangements that pass for civilization, while inviting us to dwell more knowingly within our own lives. In this, Horizons/East is the rare rock album on which interrelatedness is a theme, painting an adventurous and lush landscape mixed by Scott Evans that the band self-produced and recorded at their own New Grass Studio. The album exemplifies art as a work of recognition - the human task of perceiving oneself amid details, disasters, and blessings as a relentlessly relational phenomenon among others. Horizons/East is available for pre-order now and will be released 17th September digitally and 8th October physically via Epitaph Records. Watch the new music video for “Scavengers” here or by clicking the image below. Sonically, “Scavengers” is driven by a dark and intricate braid of guitar and drum grooves, while the lyrics challenge listeners to discern between the issues and information that bond us versus those that disintegrate and destroy. Directed by DJay Brawner, the video transports viewers to a different world one of mystery and disguises that leaves viewers unsure of whom to trust and where to turn. Fresh off last week’s announcement of their upcoming 11th studio album Horizons/East, California-based rock band Thrice has dropped a visually stunning music video in support of their newest single “ Scavengers” today.
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