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The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II: Fire & Water (CD)

By: Thrice (Artist)

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Thrice Artist Snapshot:

Post-hardcore outfit Thrice hails from Orange County, California, one of the epicenters of America's punk scene. Thrice's 2000 debut, IDENTITY CRISIS, mixed elements of punk, screamo, and pop with progressive tendencies. Subsequent albums, such as 2002's THE ILLUSION OF SAFETY and 2005's VHEISSU, found the group moving toward a more progressive, musically complex style. Thrice supported these albums with extensive touring, hitting the road with such acts as Samiam, Further Seems Forever, and Coheed & Cambria. In '07 and '08, Thrice released two albums of live material, and a four-part conceptual project entitled THE ALCHEMY INDEX.

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DISC 1 for The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II: Fire & Water (CD) Album By Thrice (Artist)
1   Firebreather
2   Messenger, The
3   Backdraft
4   Arsonist, The
5   Burn The Fleet
6   Flame Deluge, The
 
DISC 2 for The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II: Fire & Water (CD) Album By Thrice (Artist)
1   Digital Sea
2   Open Water
3   Lost Continent
4   Night Diving
5   Whaler, The
6   Kings Upon The Main
 

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Review

Spin (p.125) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Part Tom Waits meets Isis, part Coldplay as performed by a robot orchestra, the results are fairly stunning."
Alternative Press (p.166) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]ogether FIRE and WATER form one of the most breathtaking albums of the year."
Alternative Press (p.128) - Included in Alternative Press's '10 Essential Albums Of 2007' -- "[A]n album that's alternately more sophisticated and ethereal than anything they've done before."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.50) - "FIRE is suitably bombastic and features some of the heaviest material of their career, but it is the audacious WATER where they truly excel."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.71) - Ranked #14 in Kerrang's "The Top 20 Albums Of 2007" -- "[O]ne of the most respected bands working today."

Title Note

In what seems like a textbook "big rock" move, Thrice have broken up their new album into two distinct stylistic categories, FIRE and WATER. Critics will call it pretension, but Thrice has used the structure as a vehicle to explore different facets of their distinct post-hardcore sound. Thrice has continued to move in all sorts of interesting directions since their inception, and THE ALCHEMY INDEX: VOLS I & II shows them taking that next step into complexity.

Appropriately enough, FIRE features a more incendiary Thrice. Opener "Firebreather" spews elemental shards of molten metal guitar, while furnace-burned vocals and a twisting, aggressive heaviness make "The Messenger" even more aggressive. This isn't to say that FIRE is a one-dimensional record, as other tracks take cues from atmospheric headbangers like Isis in their combination of crushing guitar and lighter, ambient sounds.

WATER, on the other hand, tilts the balance further over to the ambient side, complete with gentler vocals, washes of keyboards, and a peppering of electronics, coming off at times like Depeche Mode on the one hand and even the late Elliott Smith on the other. It's a sonic palate as far removed from the opening notes of FIRE as it is from the band's post-hardcore origins, and it amply showcases Thrice's progression and ambitions.

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