This album is incredible. I’ve always been a huge fan of Thursday, and I think these songs embody what I’ve always liked about them, something majestic, something emotionally cathartic. I think the comparison to Deafheaven you make is pretty apt, I get that same transcendance, overwhelmed by noise feeling

You wish there was less music to be excited about?

The Lower East Side is a jukebox

I’ve been really enjoying this Deafheaven album this summer, so much that I went to the show in Cambridge last week. Since then, I’ve been listening to the album a lot, as well as checking out other bands like Wolves in the Throne Room that have similar sounds. I would think that purists would be happy that someone like me who would never think twice about black metal would get into it, even a little bit.

That being said, I know exactly where you’re coming from, michael. It’s tough when a band like Thursday is so important to you and how you feel and how you self-identify and how you express your emotions, and you see it become the “cool” thing that was everything they stood against, in your mind, in the first place. It’s like hanging out at a very fun party and a bunch of people who weren’t invited show up.