Jobie's Bite-Sized Music Reviews #31: Waiting (album) - Thursday
- ChemicalSkylines
- Jun 13, 2022
- 2 min read
Not Recommended
Waiting is a 1999 post-hardcore album by American rock band Thursday. It is the band's debut album. It has slightly less tracks than most studio albums, clocking in at only 9 tracks. The album's sound features medium-paced guitar melodies, shouted vocals, and all of the usual post-hardcore elements. All of the instrumentals on this album are great, feeling relatively varied and well-executed; even on some of the less enjoyable tracks, the instrumentals still sound great. However, the album has a noticeably amateur production quality, with some tracks having a relatively flat, poorly mixed sound. This is especially present in the track “Porcelain”, where the vocals take a backseat, and become buried in the instrumental. With some tracks, this problem isn't as major; for the majority of “In-Transmission”, one can clearly hear the vocals that Geoff Rickly (the lead singer of Thursday) sings. Another issue that the album has are Geoff Rickly's vocals. While the majority of the vocals on this album are fine, sometimes Rickly's delivery falls flat – this isn't an issue for most of the album, however. Lyrically, the album is actually pretty well written. A few tracks are about serious subject matter, such as the track “Porcelain”, which is about the death of Rickly's friend Kevin, who committed suicide shortly after moving to San Francisco. The track “Where the Circle Ends”, the last track on the album, is not sung, but is instead an entirely spoken-word track, written in a decidedly more poetic style than the other eight tracks on the album. I am not entirely sure what it's about, but it does seem there is some deeper meaning to the song. My favorite tracks from this album are “Porcelain”, “Introduction”, and “Dying in New Brunswick”. Overall, Waiting is a decent album from the rock band Thursday. While the album has its issues, and I am not recommending the album, there is a fair chance that some people may still enjoy the album; I don't hate the album, but I do have very mixed feelings of it, due to the reasons described above.*
*While researching information on this album, I heard that their 2001 album Full Collapse is a better album, so don't be surprised if you see a review for that album soon.
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