Full Collapse

Critic Score
Based on 4 reviews
User Score
Based on 490 ratings
2001 Ratings: #108
April 10, 2001 / Release Date
LP / Format
Victory / Label
Sal VillanuevaProducer
Full Credits
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Critic Reviews

80
Sputnikmusic
Well-structured, unpredictable, good musicianship, satisfactory vocals & borderline melodic. Yet, this is still Post-Hardcore & maybe it’s the genre near its best!
60
AllMusic

Taking emocore up a notch, Thursday is not afraid to develop a sound that the independent music scene has been in favor of for quite some time. Full Collapse is a breath of fresh air and has the potential to be liked by fans of harder music everywhere.

60
Rolling Stone
Whenever Thursday's guitars become slow and subdued, it's because the band is preparing to unleash a withering assault: In Thursday's world, there's nothing constant, nothing safe to hold onto.
56
Pitchfork

Full Collapse is scream-tastic, but that's about it-- it doesn't even stand out in its own miniscule sub-sub-genre.

depechemode4lif
85

A very consistent and solid emo hardcore album. While not much blew me away perhaps the best feat this album accomplishes is it's refined focus on making solid textbook definition of emo post hardcore of the early 2000s. Some major highlights on this record that continue the consistency they show on their debut album two years prior, and yet it avoids some of the production flaws that weight their next album down a little bit.

Alkmatt
87

This is a strong slice of early 2000s emo/post-hardcore. For a long time, I got this band and Finch confused, though after listening to this record and their debut back to back, the differences are pretty clear. This record leans much more into emo, and that Finch record doesn't quite as much. I also happen to enjoy that album significantly more than this one, though this is still a pretty quintessential emo record in its own right. The screaming can be hit or miss for me, sometimes it can ... read more

blackholefriend
87

pretty dope emo. very much your typical 3rd wave emo, lucky that it also happens to be awesome too.

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Ericfyre
75

Unique clean vocals and great drums and guitar. Unfortunately the unclean vocals are very bad…

74

holy awful

j0nathan
90

wow, this album is really fucking good

fav track: How Long Is The Night?

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