War All the Time

Thursday’s third album for Island captures post-hardcore at its most fractured and urgent, trading the band’s earlier melodic hooks for jagged guitar work and Geoff Rickly’s increasingly anguished vocals. Released during the genre’s commercial peak, War All the Time stands as a darker, more abrasive entry in the emo canon—less concerned with accessibility than with channeling genuine turbulence through distortion and fractured song structures.