COUNTING 5-4-3-2-1 - THURSDAY
This fiery track uses a tragic story as an analogy to urge listeners to flee from whatever imprisons them. Geoff Rickly shouts the warning that “the train is catching up/Keep on running” as the protagonist struggles to free a foot caught between the rails of a track as a train bears down. Thursday stokes the urgency with Tom Keely and Steve Pedulla’s tight guitar rhythms, Tim Payne’s lively bassline and Tucker Rule dashing off beats like Morse code. The apex comes at the bridge, where mutilayered vocals count down in staccato time as Rickly hollers, “Burn this city!” This one will be blasting from every parking lot on the Vans Warped tour.–Billboard
