TheMightyQuinn

34 minutes ago, thomasj182 said:

I haven't heard anything back from their customer service, I emailed them on friday morning when i got my album. i figure that they screwed this up and there will be no smoke left to send out. 

22 minutes ago, Buffbloom said:

I ordered smoke and got black too... 

This is really, really shitty. You guys think the distributor(s) just payed no mind whatsoever to the different variants and sent them out as if there wasn't a distinction between orders? I'm expecting mine tomorrow... 

3 hours ago, andyrobbins said:

weird, I ordered a smoke copy and got gray marble 

Still waiting for mine to show up. Hoping it will be grey marble and not black. Plenty of those hanging out at my local store. 

Also, after 6+ listens, I've formulated a conclusive opinion: Solid record with the exception of the choruses in Wake Up, and Stay With Me. Whistleblower's lyrics are a tad annoying to me, but the instrumentation and the 5/8 goodness makes up for it. Hurricane, The Window, The Long Defeat, and Salt and Shadow are all fantastic Thrice songs. 

I've gotta add, though, that I share the sentiment that this encroaches upon "dad rock." I find it hard to set my Thrice bias aside with this one; would I enjoy it as much if I never heard of Thrice before or if I hadn't been a massive fan for the last 14 years? I'm not sure. 

2 hours ago, ckthriceck said:

So is there any info as to why? Did they oversell or just straight up send people who preordered black ones the smoke ones? Or smaller print run?

1 minute ago, himynameisdk said:

Picked up a copy from my local record store last night and although I haven't spun it yet the lyric book alone is amazing. I kinda wish it was a gatefold though. 

Does the booklet contain liner notes like The Alchemy Index, Beggars, and Major/Minor?

"Smoke" is totally grey marble... Unless my eyes are deceiving me on Instagram.

15 minutes ago, thomasj182 said:

Mine just showed up, ordered smoke variant, got the black 

So shitty. My thoughts are with you. And I, much like the other two before me, am afraid that the same thing will happen to me. Ughhhh

I don't feel like I'm comfortable gauging the album as a whole yet, given that EVERY Thrice album post-TAITA took 5+ listens for me to even gain a decent handle on. Of course, people are entitled to their opinions, but for this one, I think it's important for people to give it more of a chance. However, after 4 listens, the only tracks that I'm having a difficult time getting into are Wake Up and Stay with Me. Both of their choruses are really, really, poppy sounding. My favorites thus far are Hurricane, The Window, The Long Defeat, and Salt and Shadow. The hate I'm reading here for The Window is kind of blowing my mind. The lyrics are sick and very illustrative- their content totally fits the creepy and heavy dissonance. I'm looking forward to diving further into this album. 

20 minutes ago, MayCauseDeath said:

This might be a big maybe but want to feel this out, I bought a second colored version for my co worker because he said he wanted it but didn't have the funds but now says he doesn't like what he's heard and not sure he wants it.... If he doesn't would someone want it here at cost? That's IF he doesn't change his mind and take it. 

On March 25, 2016 at 9:28 AM, TXDRMST said:

Leave it to me to sleep through the most important pre-order of the year. Can anyone PM me with a price if they got an extra copy?

On April 28, 2016 at 8:12 PM, hyperg1ant said:

New song is awesome! 

There's a dude who posted a WTB thread that I know desperately wants this. Txdrmst or something like that.

7 hours ago, xtobi-wanx said:

Sure.

To me, these two songs do sound different and represent the two sides of this record (I wouldn't necessarily call them "extremes"). "Blood on the sand" is a catchy alternative rock song (simple verse-bridge-chorus structure, hookline in the chrous...). There are a few of these on the record, which make it easier accessible than Beggars or M/M to me. "Black honey" as well as "The window" (and others) are dirtier, groovier, more in the vein of said previous records.

If you are looking for extremes on single elements (e.g. ambient sounds ("Salt and shadow"), melodies ("Stay with me"), outbursts ("Death from above")...), you'll probably find them in every song. It's a diverse record, ranging from easy accessible hooklines to songs that need to grow on you.

Maybe that perception is also influenced by the fact that I've been following Thrice since Identity Crisis. My personal favourites are the first three records (or four, if you count First Impressions). However, they haven't lost me on their development since then and I enjoy their entire discography.

This was super helpful. Thanks! Thrice has been my favorite band since The Artist in the Ambulance and my favorite records of theirs are Vheissu and TAI. 

Maybe I came across a bit negative on my last post- I totally didn't mean to. There's really no way Thrice could "lose me." 

On 5/17/2016 at 8:11 AM, xtobi-wanx said:

From "Blood on the sand" to "Black honey" is exactly the diversity the new record has to offer.

Care to elaborate on this? I'm not really sure what you mean. Are you saying that the general sound/vibe of the album falls in between these two tracks, where Blood on the Sand and Black Honey represent the polar extremes? The last thing I wanna do is knock Thrice, but if my interpretation of what you've said is correct, that would be a huge shame; as I think those songs are not terribly different from each other. 

They put up another teaser, for "The Window," on instagram and facebook. Heavies, dirties, groovies. What I'm hearing in this latest teaser is the type of sound I was hoping for with this release. If they sprinkle some ambience/twinkly goodies (i.e. Atlantic, anything on Water, Circles, etc.) in addition, I will be more than a happy camper. 

Given that they've been releasing these small snippets chronologically on a daily basis, I fully expect to hear a snippet of Wake Up tomorrow, and so on. Pretty cool. 

PM'd

Thrice have been, bar none, my favorite band since The Artist in the Ambulance was released, and every single one of their releases deeply resonates with me on some level. With that said, I'm pretty disappointed with Blood on the Sand and am truly hoping that it is by far the worst track on the album. It is a straight-up radio rock song. Worse yet, and despite their current relevance, the lyrics are overwhelmingly straight forward and lack depth. They seem like a dumbed-down version of Cold Cash. 

Aside from my disappointment in the new track, the 15 second instagram snippet of a different song was super promising, and I still trust that Thrice are incapable of making a bad record. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Oh, and for once my awaking repeatedly throughout the night had served me well- I was able to grab a colored 180g. 

This soundtrack, though it flows and feels more like a proper studio full-length, is truly awesome. I think it's their best work since Mr. Beast, and I've liked quite literally every bit of their corpus.

Shit. Here I was thinking it had already shipped and they just weren't sending shipping confirmations

The blue variant from their webstore appears to be available again: http://explosionsinthesky.merchline.com/products/the-wilderness

In for the 180g black. These guys brought it down heavy in Madison with Caspian. Such a killer show.

I'm hoping for a headlining tour (if that's realistic) in support for the album. And if beggars can be choosers, they'll swing by Milwaukee and do another acoustic thingy in the abandoned pool in the basement of The Rave/Eagles Club.

If anyone's willing to sell a copy of the /350 180g black, please shoot me a PM! Really trying to score a super-solid listening copy. My color-in-color showed up with a massive scuff spanning half of My Little Wish and the duration of Song Silly that makes both tracks unlistenable. 

I think I caught your angle; my post was also a jab at the frat boys who can't seem to get over that track. It's always a treat to see live, but it's hardly the reason to catch Thrice, for me.

100%

Also, I unfortunately missed them when they played most recently in Chicago (for both riot fest and the after show) due to a wedding that weekend; massive, massive bummer. A good friend of mine who attended bought a PLAY DEADBOLT shirt for me because he knows how much I appreciate those folk. 

I'm really hoping that the text on the insert is/are lyrics. That would be awesome; especially since I'm not particularly gifted in deciphering toe lyrics to begin with. 

I think I've stood next to you at a Thrice show or two.

I apoloigize, I should've made it clearer that I was attempting to make a joke- albeit a bad one. I'm usually the one at the show who is having watery light beer spilled all over them by someone shouting "PLAY DEADBOLT!" 

All poor jokes and passive-aggressive complaining aside, I'm really looking forward to whatever they release next. That being said, I'm an avid all of their previous efforts as well.

Deadbolt

New album

Vheissu

The Alchemy Index

Beggars

The Illusion of Safety

Major/Minor

The Artist in the Ambulance

Identity Crisis

Got my shipping confirmation!

I'm with you on this new song, Don. Absolutely killer tune. Love the hand percussion and the space-rock sounding sample in the beginning. Need I even mention the overdriven bass about 1/4 of the way through? Welp, I did.

This shit rules. Just got way more pumped for the full album.