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Like many bands that've been around the aisle a few times, Thursday bookended the first phase of their career by celebrating 2001's Full Collapse LP with a 10th-anniversary tour. The crowd-pleasing trek reminded the aging punk in all of us that post-hardcore's second wave crested during George W. Bush's first term. Back then, groups like Glassjaw and Thrice sounded as vital as "screamo" did the first time around, when half of Dischord's roster had more in common with Morrissey — lyrically speaking, at least — than Minor Threat.
Geoff Rickly has always been Thursday's clearest Smiths fan, but the wiry frontman isn't alone in the diverse tastes department. Let's just say there's a reason why they've worked with the Flaming Lips' unofficial fourth member (producer Dave Fridmann) on three straight records — they'd rather write an arty rock album than soundtrack next summer's Warped Tour. Or, as Rickly told Spin.com in the months leading up to No DevolucÃon, "We were always tempering our desire to make something that was more graceful, more sweeping, and this record was the first one where we said, 'You know what? Who cares?'"
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