Thrice – Beggars

Releasedate: 14-09-2009; Label: Vagrant
By: Sabine van Gameren

The quartet named Thrice is coming from California, USA. The make post-rock, but dipped into other genres before. “Beggars” is their sixth album.

The album appears to be quite a lot calmer than I expected from the description. It doesn’t take long to realize that the power of this music is in the atmospherical side. To discover the band, there is some attention requested, because the music just is not that obvious. Placebo fans might be very pleased with this record as their music seems to be constructed to hit you at the same way. Fans who know the earlier work might be surprised by this work, but perhaps should give it some time.
First two songs are kicking in hard, while the third one called “Circles” brings contrast as a ballad. While the band changes every few songs with some harder and more soft songs, the album ends with the title song “Beggars” (if you exclude the five downloadable bonussongs that come with the record) which is quite emotional. The fact that they change this often, it might be a tough task to really get into the album when you are not able to give it that 100% attention. You might lose interest if you intended to play the music on the background while doing something, but when listening to it with your headphones on bring you to a higher state of pleasure.

Overall, “Beggars” seems quite experimental. In order to get the maximum out of it, Thrice might have reconsidered the order of the tracks to make it more in one line instead of jumping up and down with atmospheres because that is what makes this record a bit less than deserved music wise.

Line-Up:
Dustin Kensrue – Vocals, Guitar
Teppei Teranishi – Guitar
Ed Breckenridge – Bass
Riley Breckenridge – Drums

 
Links:
Thrice MySpace
Thrice Official