Thursday: Common Existence

Thursday - Common Existence

Review by James Skinner

The fifth album from New Jersey post-hardcore/emo champions Thursday sees them once more pair up with producer Dave Fridmann, offering a bruising, nuanced set where Geoff Rickly’s poetic leanings are offset by humongous riffs and occasional exercises in brooding ambience. If 2003’s War All The Time was a call, suggests Geoff Rickly, this is its all-encompassing response.»