A month on from announcing their new album, ‘Horizons/West,’ Thrice have shared a second track from the album. ‘Albatross’ serves as a sturdy example of the quartet’s anthemic capabilities.
Highlighted by a lyrical push-pull relationship of pain, loss, time, and resilience, Dustin Kensrue’s sincere words are complemented by the band’s ever-reliable textured sound. Taking in post-rock elements, it showcases Thrice‘s assured and dynamic ability.
“We can take the very thing the world has offered us as a token of hope and good luck and destroy it, and in that way, I’ve found that we often create our own ill omens. Thankfully, I’ve found it’s not always too late to reverse those same curses,” says Kensrue on ‘Albatross’‘ poetic nature.
‘Horizons/West’ is released on 3rd October, via Epitaph Records. Pre-order ‘Horizons/West’ here
‘Albatross’ Lyrics
The wayward marks
The waves of pain and pleasure
The hallowed dark
The hollow grin
The fallow fields, the golden grain
The tower fell, the star remains
The token scrawled
Into our skin
They keep on tellin’ me our stars are crossed
But I think that you might be my albatross
We learned to run before we learned to walk
There’s so much time to steal before the sun goes down
The waiting rooms
The weight of empty houses
The harvest moon
The holy wars
The swirling ash, the swindled years
The cracks through which the light appears
We stumble through
A saffron door
