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Thursday: Common Existence

Feb 17, 2009, 8:02am Fire Drills
Thursday: Common Existence Thursday Common Existence Epitaph Records [2009] Fire Drills Review: After taking Thursday's fifth album Common Existence for a spin I went back to the post-hardcore pioneers breakout record Full Collapse [2001] to get a baseline. What I realized is that this is a band that is trying to find their initial spunk. Common Existence succeeds on several tracks to recapture that early glory fire plus with Flaming [...]
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