Beautiful Hardcore
If you turned up Robert Smith and the Cure by a few notches until you had a hardcore band whose mood, both lyrically and musically, could deliver a subtle, yet stinging punch, you would have Thursday. Treading the path with acts like At the Drive-In and Boy Sets Fire, the emo-core band from New Jersey is making their own ripple through the indie rock world.
Intellectual lyrics, rhythmically tight compositions, and dynamic tempo changes so reminiscent of those wild mood swings of the Cure are what the buzz is all about. One would be hard-pressed to find another hardcore band on the current music scene doing anything as original as Thursday.
What the band has created is an album that is heavy but at the same
time retains a certain aesthetic beauty. The guitars sweep under the screams like the fusing of Brit-pop and hardcore. A melodic atmosphere hasn’t been sacrificed for unnecessary sonic brutality, leaving no track to stand on its own. Finding more comparisons to Morrisey than other melodic-hardcore acts, vocalist Geoff Rickley says, “We’re not negative, but we’re darker than bands doing similar stuff.”
So, as the band crunches out some of the best music to surface this year, don’t be surprised if you find your emotions spinning full circle until you’re left gasping for air. That’s what emo is all about.
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Sep 21 2001. Filed under Features.
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