{"id":99980,"date":"2025-08-25T14:39:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=99980"},"modified":"2025-08-25T19:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:55:16","slug":"thrice-albatross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/thrice-albatross\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrice Preview &#8216;Horizons\/West&#8217; with Anthemic Single (&#8216;Albatross&#8217;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/thrice-horizons-west\/\">A month on from announcing their new album,\u00a0<em>&#8216;Horizons\/West,&#8217;<\/em><\/a> <strong>Thrice<\/strong> have shared a second track from the album.\u00a0<em>&#8216;Albatross&#8217;<\/em> serves as a sturdy example of the quartet&#8217;s anthemic capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighted by a lyrical push-pull relationship of\u00a0pain, loss, time, and resilience, Dustin Kensrue&#8217;s sincere words are complemented by the band&#8217;s ever-reliable textured sound. Taking in post-rock elements, it showcases\u00a0<strong>Thrice<\/strong>&#8216;s assured and dynamic ability.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;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\u2019ve found that we often create our own ill omens. Thankfully, I\u2019ve found it\u2019s not always too late to reverse those same curses,&#8221;<\/em> says Kensrue on <em>&#8216;Albatross&#8217;<\/em>&#8216; poetic nature.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Horizons\/West&#8217; <\/em>is released on 3rd October, via\u00a0<strong>Epitaph Records<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/thrice.ffm.to\/horizonswest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pre-order\u00a0<em>\u2018Horizons\/West\u2019<\/em>\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Thrice - \u201cAlbatross\u201d\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3rP-lNtIH7I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><em>&#8216;Albatross&#8217; <\/em>Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>The wayward marks<br \/>\nThe waves of pain and pleasure<br \/>\nThe hallowed dark<br \/>\nThe hollow grin<br \/>\nThe fallow fields, the golden grain<br \/>\nThe tower fell, the star remains<br \/>\nThe token scrawled<br \/>\nInto our skin<br \/>\nThey keep on tellin\u2019 me our stars are crossed<br \/>\nBut I think that you might be my albatross<br \/>\nWe learned to run before we learned to walk<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s so much time to steal before the sun goes down<br \/>\nThe waiting rooms<br \/>\nThe weight of empty houses<br \/>\nThe harvest moon<br \/>\nThe holy wars<br \/>\nThe swirling ash, the swindled years<br \/>\nThe cracks through which the light appears<br \/>\nWe stumble through<br \/>\nA saffron door<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second track from Thrice&#8217;s upcoming 12th studio album is described as &#8220;a haunting exploration of Love, Guilt and Fate&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17559],"tags":[2473],"class_list":["post-99980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-thrice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thrice Preview &#039;Horizons\/West&#039; 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