Thursday/Envy
Thursday/Envy

Campus Correspondent Review By Byron McQuain,
Middle Tennessee State

The only problem with this split release by veterans Thursday and newcomer Envy is that it leaves you wanting more. Thursday offers up three and a half songs and Envy takes over with another three. From Thursday's batch, "An Absurd and Unrealistic Dream of Peace,"  with it's driving guitar riffs and Tom Keeley's lofty vocals, might remind old fans of the "Counting 5-4-3-2-1." The first track, "As He Climbed the Dark Mountain," has a catchy indie-rock beat and an intensity of emotion that only Thursday can seem to pack into a song. The second track, "In Silence," is an instrumental, but wait, the fourth song, "Appeared and Was Gone" sounds exactly the same! Not cool guys. Out of the two instrumentals, "Appeared and was Gone" is much more interesting, with scary effects and an explosion of sound at the end. 

Let's move on to Envy. This indie/screamo band from Tokyo creates some really nice atmospheres in their three-song offering. This is definitely an act to keep an eye on. Just in the three songs on this CD they show the broad spectrum of music they can play, from atmospheric ballads like "An Umbrella Fallen into Fiction," to the hard-driving "Isolation of a Light Source." And these guys don't trick you and make you think they have four songs, so Envy wins in the end.