Information technology'due south been a while since Thrice last released a studio anthology, nearly five years in fact. So today is a 24-hour interval I've been in anticipation of for quite some time. They've always been my favourite ring for their bulldoze in pushing forwards and trying new sounds and approaches to songwriting and To Exist Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere is no exception.

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I was tempted to write this as a track-past-track but we'd be here for days and so I'll just get over the master highlights.

The virtually noticeable atypical element of near all of Thrice's more contempo piece of work has to be the guitar tones, and TBEITBN follows suit. The cleans audio so crisp, bluesy and piercing without drawing your attention from the rest of the song, and the heavier tones feel similar a warm musical hug, but not in a style that drowns out the more subtle elements. If you listen to The Window and Blackness Love you'll understand. And the vocals. Oh, the vocals. I've been in dearest with Dustin Kensrue'southward phonation for around 14 years only information technology seemed to achieve a new level on Beggars and Major/Minor. It's all gravelly and lovely. Blood On The Sand and Death From Above are my favourites for showcasing exactly what I hateful.

They're lyrically just as stiff as ever too, I've been sat hither for ages trying to pick some of my favourite examples simply I tin can't. They're all just and then so good. There's such a wide multifariousness as well, with some political songs such as Death From Above (which seems to exist written from the perspective of a drone pilot) beingness a clear contrast to Stay With Me, the track direct before Expiry From Above and is more like a honey song. Songs like Stay With Me show how incredible Thrice consistently are at constructing songs, there isn't a single dull or out of place chorus on the whole album but the thought that goes into the writing is and so axiomatic in Stay With Me. They know when to go on it unproblematic and when to play with fourth dimension signatures of structures, and practise so in other songs, but Stay With Me is fairly straightforward but not defective in luminescence.

From watching the studio updates on YouTube, they said they were bringing in new music merely trying to shine light on diverse eras of the band's duration and it'southward been and so carefully done to arrive seem either accidental or casual. In places information technology feels like an amalgamation of the best bits of the albums following The Artist In The Ambulance that you'd just actually observe if yous had them pointed out to you or if you're a Thrice nerd similar me.

The chorus for Decease From Above brings about memories of Silhouette though I can't place way (probably the time signature and general heaviness), and Whistleblower would fit perfectly on Vheissu, but by far the easiest one to point out is Common salt And Shadow. It's such a perfect album closer, reminiscent of some of the tracks from the Air affiliate of The Abracadabra Index. It almost feels like a lullaby, with the multi-layered vocals lending themselves to probably the best 'low-cal' song Thrice take ever written. I also love the mode Salt And Shadow ends, information technology's a very subtle hark back to the "You've got to play it over again" from The Beltsville Crucible from The Illusion Of Safe but it's and then expertly done that it's easy to miss.

I had loftier expectations for To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere, as I practice with every anthology by every ring I love, and I'thousand and so pleased to say they've all been exceeded. I know a lot of other amazing albums accept been released this year but TBEITBN has shot to the tiptop, with about of the songs mentioned hither being amongst the best songs I've heard for a long fourth dimension.