Artist: Thursday/Envy
Album: Split EP
Link: www.myspace.com/thursday
www.myspace.com/officialenvy
I thought it would be an interesting idea to review this EP due to the fact that a very long time ago I was really into Emo bands, particularly Thursday. I felt it would be a good angle to review a band I used to like and haven’t heard in years just to see what my opinion on them is like now. As for Envy up until this point I hadn’t heard a single song from this Japanese experimental band before so they would be a new discovery!
So what happened?
Well as for Thursday, who had four songs on this EP, they sounded immense. Just like the Thursday I remembered before they lost their way. It harked back to the fast and urgent Thursday I loved as a teenage, especially on ‘An Absurd And Unrealistic Dream Of Peace’. The inclusion of the piano on ‘In Silence’ and ‘Appeared And Was Gone’ was a great touch too, as well as the post-rock influence on both of those tracks.
As for Envy, I found them to be a bit hit and miss. Their first offering ‘An Umbrella Fallen Into Fiction’ is a really epic, Mono inspired song but with a really pointless outro full of shouting and screaming which really detracted from the rest of the song, which up to the point was great. Their next song ‘Isolation Of A Light Source’ was a brutal wall of sound which musically was great but got a bit too much towards the end in terms of vocals. Their final track was pretty good though as it left ‘hardcore’ territory and entered more into the epic/destruction territory they seem to be pretty good at.
For me Thursday have come out on top here. The simple reason why is they’ve somehow taken the best elements of Envy’s style and incorporated into their own music, which has only made them better. Whereas Envy seem to take the worst elements of Thursday and not really benefited from it at all.
Thursday 4.5/5
Envy 3.5/5
7 responses so far ↓
1 dreamaboutme // Sep 28, 2008 at 1:17 pm
i adore envy. they are so amazing live and they are just a very me band. but i think this split could have been better. which is a shame because i also love thursday!
this and united nations review in one week. awesome!
2 richmelvin // Sep 28, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I will definitely be tracking this down, just like you I used to listen to alot of emo type stuff and Thursday were my fav’s but yeah they pretty much lost their way on that last album. Looking forward to hearing them again at their best
3 Jonster // Sep 30, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Thursday? Emo? like…when? Post hardcore if anything…
But yea, apart from that you’re pretty much spot on in your review, Thursday do really go a step ahead and if it reflects on the new album, I’m pretty stoked.
4 oliverx12 // Oct 1, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I was spit between calling them post hardcore or emo to be honest. I think when they first came out they sounded more like an emo band to me
both genres are pretty vague anyway though
5 Tom Bage // Oct 2, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I am seriously excited about getting my mitts on this. Thursday and Envy are both class acts, in different ways.
I saw Thursday on the Warped Tour in Arizona a couple of years ago and they were absolutely stunning.
6 Jesse // Oct 3, 2008 at 7:39 am
Who claims to like “emo” and has never heard of Envy? GTFO my internets, nub.
7 oliverx12 // Oct 3, 2008 at 11:04 am
Actually I claimed that i “used” to like Emo. Im 23 now so that was about 10 years ago. I’m assuming by your use of GTFO means you were pretty young 10 years ago
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