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Thursday

Published February 6, 2009

The band Thursday has come a long way from their major release War All The Time, and being pronounced in 2004 by SPIN Magazine as "the next big thing." Riding the grooves of the post-hardcore sound and after more albums, DVDs, and even a split-EP with the Japanese band Envy, the group devoted considerable time to their latest album, Common Existence. Singer Geoff Rickly notes, "We worked on this record every day for almost a year."

Thursday.

It shows. Whether you're listening to the clever song "Time's Arrow" (where the music is played backwards at one point), or the powerful "Friends In The Armed Forces" (with a guest appearance by Walter Schriefels of Quicksand), Thursday envelops you in their no-compromises sound and thought-provoking lyrics. "So many of our songs have been about crazy or devastating situations and this record is about growing up and seeing that everyone shares the same existential crisis that we're going through," Rickly explains. "Everybody feels like they're special or different and this record is about me realizing that everybody has these feelings and there's nothing more common than what we think is our individuality."

The cover of the band's latest album, Common Existence.

The cover of the band's latest album, Common Existence.

Rickly continues, "Writing this album was an enormous amount of work because we wanted to do something that was a progression and was also closer to the heart of what Thursday's sound is about … I think that we're still a post-hardcore band. Once you've been playing this long it's natural to want to wring power out from different things, different chords, different time signatures. It doesn't necessarily change the fundamental swing of your music; it just makes you want to express that same center in different ways."

They've managed to express themselves very well with Common Existence. Thursday consists of singer Geoff Rickly, guitarists Tom Keeley and Steve Pedulla, bassist Tim Payne, drummer Tucker Rule, and keyboardist Andrew Everding.

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