KILL THE HOUSE LIGHTS - THURSDAY
This collection of Thursday material well-serves its likely purposes of keeping the band top of mind in the fourth quarter while giving screamo fans a new favorite thing for Christmas. Three new songs and nine previously unreleased ones, plus a documentary/concert DVD, make “Kill the House Lights” worth exploring. Instead of throwing in anything the vault offered, the CD is a cohesive play that flitters through a variety of beats, timings and moods. Among the best angst flailings are “Ladies and Gentlemen: My Brother, the Failure,” “Signals Over the Air,” “Panic on the Streets of Health Care City” and “Paris in Flames.” Topping this one-off for former label home Victory is a 12-song sampler of Victory acts in the same vein as Thursday (Aiden, Driver Side Impact) that takes care to catch them at their best angles.
