Emotionalpunk.com
Media Review
Music Quality: 10.0
Production: 9.5
Originality: 10.0
Tracklisting
2. Between The End And Where We Lie
3. The Earth Will Shake
4. Atlantic
5. For Miles
6. Hold Fast Hope
7. Music Box
8. Like Moths To Flame
9. Of Dust And Nations
10. Stand And Feel Your Worth
11. Red Sky
The long-awaited, highly anticipated album from Thrice was made in a patient several months, while the band brewed ideas and concepts that surely outlast anything they have ever done. Vheissu, in a word, is a masterpiece, a sort of epic sounding album that outlives the band's very name. Thrice have re-invented themselves this time.
Opening with a fairly typical sound that sticks out as an honest "single," Image Of The Invisible is a blasting, shouting array of sound and fury reminiscent of songs on The Artist And The Ambulance, but with a little more chorus. It's not until this song ends that the real undertakers reveal themselves, however, and the album ca[rettapults into a sort of genius that was truly unexpected by most, but accepted by everyone.
Pianos, drum-loops, eerie reverbed shouting, and of course huge, heavy riffage all combine on this disc for an array of sound. Dustin sounds clear as ever, with a lot of brilliant harmonies and swooning choruses, all sounding like Thrice, but yet sounding like nothing they have ever done before. Truly, the band has changed into a sort of eerie, whimsical band who are obviously thinking more than about writing a catchy song with technical guitars.
Expect the unexpected with Vheissu, the econd major-label release from Thrice, and OBVIOUSLY their greateast effort as a band to write an album that truly thinks beyond the songs. I wouldn't hesitate to call Vheissu their masterpiece album.