Chromatic Dracula
I love love love love this. What a way to turn something sad into something beyond beautiful. My ears are happy.
Favorite track: White Bikes.
43percentarmed
How can I truly convey what it means to have new Thursday in 2024 as a 20+ year fan? You just can't. It's so much bigger than a song,it's the very embodiment of all that is meaningful and life affirming about music. Truly grateful to have Geoff and company still hitting me where it hurts after all these years. There's a lot of heartache in survival, but this song serves as a poignant reminder that life is art, and pain often paints the most beautiful of pictures.
Favorite track: White Bikes.
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about
White Bikes started with an idea from Norman Brannon, who came to us from one of our favorite bands of all time, Texas is the Reason, and you can hear his distinctive style all over this song. It might be the first true example of our “Thursday is the Reason” era. We fulfilled a life long dream of recording it in Berlin’s famous Hansa studios, where Stuart Richardson had the idea to produce the track like a nostalgic, upbeat, summery version of War All the Time. The lyrics deal with the loss of a dear friend, who was one of the first people I ever played music with. Before he disappeared on his bicycle, he asked me to meet him but I never made it to the meeting spot. Now whenever I see a white bike on the side of the road I think of him.
lyrics
White bikes on the side of the road
Last night I heard a crash on 22
And you were never the same
Did you forget your name as the pedals turned and the road unspooled ahead?
Some days I still see your name on the side of the crosstown bus
It’s like something’s looking after us
You asked me to look for you on the overpass near 22
I’m waiting, I’m waiting for you to come around again (turn the radio up or how will I ever know?)
Why am I still waiting for you to come around again? (The radio’s on, how can you turn it down?)
White bikes on the side of the road
Last night I had a dream about your house.
It was never the same
Since they threw out your bed
And changed the locks
And told everyone you were dead.
You asked me to look for you
On the overpass near 22
I’m waiting, I’m waiting for you to come around again (turn the radio up or how will I ever know?)
Why am I still waiting for you to come around again? (The radio’s on, how can you turn it down?)
How can you turn it down
How can you turn it down
When the flowers turn in a purple shock
How can you turn it down
How can you turn it down
How can you turn it down
When the neon lights make you feel like god
How can you turn it down
How can you turn it down
How can you turn it down
When your friends are here and the music’s loud
How can you turn it down
When your song comes on
How can you turn it down?
I’m waiting, I’m waiting for you to come around again (turn the radio up or how will I ever know?)
Why am I still waiting for you to come around again? (Turn it up, turn it up, turn the radio up or how will I ever know?)
Am I still waiting?
credits
released December 6, 2024
Written By: Norman Brannon, Steven Pedulla, Geoffrey Rickly, Stuart Richardson, Thomas Rule.
Produced By: Stuart Richardson
Recorded At: Hansa Studios, Berlin, DE - SuperDeath, Melbourne, FL - Sioux Sioux, Charlotte, NC
Mixed By: Stuart Richardson
Mastered By: Greg Calbi / Steve Fallone
I never heard the original, as I discovered the lads later in their career. I opted for this re-recording over the original release, and I don’t think I need to even go back to compare, this version right here is phenomenal!
Rod Sedgwick
the album feels almost like telling story, with details specific enough to see it all in your mind, and vague enough to believe its yours. poetically beautiful writing sublimated by the raqw emotion of his voice feet-for-hands
