Perhaps the biggest record from that early 00s east coast post-hardcore / screamo / please-dont-call-it-emo scene, alongside Taking Back Sundays Tell All Your Friends (both recorded with the same producer at the same studio and released on the same label). Even PharmaBro is a Thursday fan, but dont let that dissuade you. Geoff Rickleys atonal vocals can be a little hard to digest even when hes not screaming, but its all part of the austerity of the subject matter, yielding song titles like Understanding In A Car Crash, Paris In Flames, A Hole In The World, I Am The Killer, etc. They had some major disagreements with their label (who produced Thursday-branded whoopee cushions as a promo item) after this, which led them to sign with Island / Def Jam, but they were never able to conjure the urgency and immediacy of Full Collapse again. Standing On The Edge Of Summer and Autobiography Of A Nation are other standouts. 21st anniversary edition spread across three 10-inches, housed in deluxe book-bound packaging.

• 21st anniversary edition
• black 3×10″ vinyl pressing
• housed in hardcover bound book packaging w/ never-before-seen photos
• limited edition of 5000
• original release year: 2001
• music label: Craft Recordings 2022

reviewed bysugar mightnot 02/2019