The nearest equivalent in recent releases would probably be Julia Holter’s Loud City Song, with its blend of jazz and rock cacophonies and swelling orchestral arrangements. The record’s neither exceptionally poppy nor exactly inviting to mainstream ears. It was a record that seemed well outside of his comfort zone and absolutely improbable coming from the man who wrote the guitar, story-based Destroyer’s Rubies and Trouble in Dreams, but then again, who would have thought that a band like Talk Talk would have gone from “It’s My Life” to making heroin-addled post-rock records perfect for bong rips in your first apartment? Legions of new fans, drawn to his music through brilliant hooks and smooth saxophone solos, may be disappointed to discover that Bejar has little interest in staying in this new comfort zone on his latest, Poison Season.
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Last time around, he drove his DeLorean straight into the collective memory of the ‘80s and wrote one of the best records of the decade, Kaputt, full of lush synths and painful nostalgia at the loss of childhood via the closing of Melody Maker. Recently he’s been traveling through time. And when that didn’t exist in blink was when it was really hard, because that’s the whole goal of that band.Dan Bejar has an ear for melancholy, and every record he’s ever made as Destroyer refracts sadness in new shades. But what I’m getting at is even when the stakes were really high and there’s a lot of pressure to follow up a really big record, doing those songs was the core of who we were – having fun, fucking with people and having a good time. It’s the head of the label and the head A&R guy, and we played them this song full of cuss words, a song that went, ‘When you fucked Hitler did he tell you that he loved you?’, which later became “When You Fucked Grandpa,” and cover of the Macarena that went, ‘Hey, wipe your anus.’ They literally thought that’s what we’d been doing for six months. We had three songs for them to hear after six months to see where we’re at. We’d had this giant record with Enema Of The State, and then we go to record its follow-up and the whole label is freaking out, because they’re scared about what we’re going to write. Tom DeLonge talked with Kerrang about the 10 songs that have defined his career, such as, “Family Reunion:” Kensrue’s closing lyrics of “I don’t know the way, but I know that I belong out here / On this journey that I never thought I’d make / Setting out across a new frontier / A new horizon with each eager step I take,” seems to encapsulate everything that I love about his top-notch storytelling on my favorite opening tracks in their discography since Vheissu’s “Image of the Invisible.” Read More “Thrice – Horizons/East” Broadcaster – “Vacation Days” (Song Premiere)
This picturesque record opens with the sprawling “The Color of the Sky,” as Dustin Kensrue sets the stage with, “My first and foremost memory / Is staring up in wonder at the wall / It circumscribed the city / They said beyond it nothing dwelt at all / But I came to wonder if the stories all were true / So one night I made my mind up / I resolved that I would find a passage through” before drummer Riley Breckenridge explodes into one of my favorite drum fills in recent memory.
On Horizons/East, Thrice are able to embrace the change that comes with pushing themselves to their artistic limits, and much like that famous Lindsay Lohan meme the limit does not exist.
They simply do not make the same record twice a true marking of an artist that is uncomfortable with the comfort that comes with creating similar sounding material. The second word that I most closely associate with this legendary band on their 11th studio album, Horizons/East, is variety. The word that most closely comes to mind when talking about Thrice is consistency.
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