Thrice

[Dave Monroe]

The Alchemy Index: Vols. I and II: Fire and Water
Thrice
Vagrant Records

[...]

If there's a band guiltier of going for the new generation's snob
appeal than Thrice, we don't want to know about it. The act already
mutated from a fairly run-of-the-mill screamo outfit into some sort of
faux-art brigade wrapped up in Thomas Pynchon and narrative albums....

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