A City by the Light Divided

Infobox Album | Name = A City by the Light Divided
Type = Album
Artist = Thursday


Released = May 2 2006
Recorded = late 2004 - early 2006 @ Tarbox Studios, Cassadaga, New York
Genre = Post-hardcore, post-punk, Post-rock
Length = 45:56
Label = Island (US); Victory, Hassle (UK)
Producer = Dave Fridmann
Reviews = * AbsolutePunk.net (90%) [http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=131096 link]
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2nxuak4kdm3p link]
* "HCS.net Rating|4|5 [http://www.hardcoresounds.net/modules.php?name=Band_List&file=cdviewer&func=2718 link]
*P&H Magazine Rating|3.5|5
Last album = "War All the Time"
(2003)
This album = "A City by the Light Divided"
(2006)
Next album = "Kill the House Lights"
(2007) |

"A City by the Light Divided" is the fourth full-length album by Thursday, released by Island Records on May 2, 2006. It reached #20 on The Billboard 200. [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:09fuxqwkldke~T5 allmusic ((( Thursday > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums ))) ] ]

Vocalist Geoff Rickly comments on the album's intent:

Prior to the album's release, in Fall 2005, five Thursday demo songs were stolen from My American Heart's tour manager's iPod. Rickly had recently collaborated with My American Heart on the track "We Are the Fabrication" for their album The Meaning in Makeup. The band issued a statement on their official website stating that they were disappointed the unfinished products leaked, but that they were glad that people take that much interest in their music. The band confirmed the title of one demo, "At This Velocity" and promised it would make their upcoming album. Three other songs ("The Other Side of the Crash/Over and Out (Of Control)", "Telegraph Avenue Kiss", and "Autumn Leaves Revisited") would also make the album; the demo versions of these songs are quite different. One more demo song has not been released.

Track listing

*All music written by Thursday
*All lyrics written by Geoff Rickly

# "The Other Side of the Crash/Over and Out (Of Control)" – 4:41
# "Counting 5-4-3-2-1" – 3:19
# "Sugar in the Sacrament" – 5:12
# "At This Velocity" – 2:58
# "We Will Overcome" – 3:39
# "Arc-Lamps, Signal Flares, a Shower of White (The Light)" – 2:32
# "Running from the Rain" – 4:00
# "Telegraph Avenue Kiss" – 3:35
# "The Lovesong Writer" – 5:18
# "Into the Blinding Light" – 3:48
# "Autumn Leaves Revisited" – 6:56
# "Even the Sand Is Made of Seashells" – 4:10 (Japanese, UK, iTunes bonus track)
# "Running from the Rain" [Dave Fridmann Remix] " (Japanese bonus track)

ingles

# "Counting 5-4-3-2-1", released 2006. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-vWHDW1TjY Video]
# "At This Velocity", released 2007. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n23ZFo5NLqc Video]

Personnel

*Geoff Rickly - vocals
*Tom Keeley - guitar, vocals
*Steve Pedulla - guitar, vocals
*Tim Payne - bass guitar
*Tucker Rule - drums
*Andrew Everding - keyboards, synthesizers
*Dave Fridmann - production, recording, mixing, engineering
*Tom Coyne - mastering
*Tim Gilles - preproduction
*Melissa Cross - vocal coach
*Amanda Tannen - additional vocals on "We Will Overcome"
*Mary Fridmann - additional vocals on "We Will Overcome"
*Louis Marino - art direction, illustration, design
*Ken Schless - photography

References