Tonight at a live performance in Albany, NY, post-hardcore luminaries Thursday debuted their first new single since 2011. It’s known as “Software For Launch From The Dream,” and it’s on-line now, 13 years to the day because the launch of 2011’s No Devolución. It’s additionally the primary Thursday tune with Norman Brannon, ex-Texas Is The Motive, on guitar, and the primary one in 25 years with out a document label. The tune is a type of thundering emo energy ballad with post-rock tendencies that may encourage folks to lift their lighters en path to its shout-along finale: “What’s life? A spark. What’s demise? A second.” It will get actual gnarly there for a couple of seconds, too — a deeply satisfying disruption in an in any other case gracefully gliding behemoth of a tune.
Thursday morning, Thursday shared this message asserting the brand new single:
Tonight we launch our first tune in 13 years. It’s additionally our first launch in 25 years WITHOUT a document label. That’s 25 years since we set out in a small white van to play basements and VFW Halls — attics, kitchens and again yards — with a bunch of burned CDRs marked in black Sharpie: “Summer time Tour ’99.” In these 25 years, there have been so many freeway breakdowns, so many emergency rooms, run-ins with the regulation. A lot time laughing within the studio, so many hours huddled collectively backstage or loading gear within the rain. And sure, 25 years of authorized disputes and public blowouts. However now we’re free. Free to make our personal errors. Free to show this band into no matter we dream it to be, whether or not we need to make it a collective of rotating members, a small cottage trade, a publishing home, a document label, or only a group of mates nonetheless having enjoyable collectively in any case these years. So tonight we step on stage at a tiny impartial venue like we might’ve performed once we had been releasing Full Collapse (23 years in the past this week) or once more once we launched No Devolucion (13 years in the past this week). The sort of place we hope we get to maintain enjoying at for so long as they’ll have us. As a result of regardless of the scale of the phases we’ve performed in these 25 years, we stay— at coronary heart — a small band, a bunch of youngsters nonetheless screaming in a basement. However we’re your small band and we love you. Thanks for every part. We’ll see you at midnight, in your time zone. “It’s only a second now.”
Within the time because the final new Thursday music, Geoff Rickly has launched a number of albums with the wonderful aspect initiatives United Nations and No Devotion and launched his debut novel, the autofiction epic Somebody Who Isn’t Me. Final yr, he sat down for a improbable We’ve Obtained A File On You.
Hear “Software For Launch From The Dream” beneath.