Thursday: No Devolución

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While Thursday spearheaded the popularization of emo in the ’00s, it also managed to rise above the mall-punk fray by staying rooted in the passion and progressiveness of ’90s post-hardcore. But with its fifth album, 2008’s Common Existence, Thursday transitioned from major-label mid-lister to Epitaph Records signee—and that renewed independence has found its full expression on the new No Devolución. Where Common Existence took the group’s complex, melodic sound to the height of precision and fidelity, No Devolución drops it off the rooftop. And it makes a gorgeous noise going down.