Track Listing
1. For the Workforce, Drowning
2. Between Rupture and Rapture
3. Division St.
4. Signals Over the Air
5. Marches and Maneuvers
6. Asleep in the Chapel
7. This Song Brought to You by a Falling Bomb
8. Steps Ascending
9. War All the Time
10. M.Shepard
11. Tomorrow I'll Be You
| Details | | Producer: | Sal Villanueva | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Thursday includes: Geoff Rickly (vocals); Steve Pedulla, Tom Keeley (guitar, background vocals); Andrew Everding (keyboards); Tim Payne (bass, background vocals); Tucker Rule (drums, background vocals).
Recorded at Big Blue Meenie, Jersey City, New Jersey and Longview Farm Studios, North Brookfield, Massachusetts.
With WAR ALL THE TIME, former underground New Jersey sensation Thursday storms into the mainstream. Diehard fans will be pleased to discover that the leap to a major label hasn't softened the band's approach. If anything, it sounds like the members of Thursday worked extra hard to ensure that the band's vision would remain wholly intact. Kicking off with the thunderous, daring "For the Workforce, Drowning," singer/lyricist Geoff Rickly firmly establishes himself as one of rock-and-roll's most distinct voices. "Division St." and "Signals over the Air" capture the skillful synergy between guitarists Steve Pedulla and Tom Keeley. But it is "Marches and Maneuvers" that best encapsulates Thursday as a band. Hyperemotional and sensitive, yet abrasive and forceful, the song uses war metaphors to dissect a deteriorating relationship. Rickly maintains this war theme throughout, whether addressing religion or suicide or depression, resulting in an album that is passionate, challenging, and deeply affecting.
Editorial Reviews
...Thursday uses vivid detail and gruff emotion to paint pictures that aren't beautiful, but they're magnetic celebrations of human imperfections....Harmonically distorted, hardcore-meets-new-wave riffs [generate] explosive middles and urgent endings...
CMJ (09/22/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - ...There's a redemptive beauty to vocalist Geoff Rickly's meditations...
Q (10/01/2003)
...These guys pack enough passion to knock you into the middle of next week... - Grade: A
Spin (10/01/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Their fourth album brims over with all the jagged guitars and bad thoughts a bunch of suburban New Jersey kids can muster...
Rolling Stone (10/02/2003)
...Sensitive as a teardrop, but hitting with the impact of a two-by-four across the jaw... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (10/17/2003)
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