Common Existence
by Thursday
  • Record Label: Epitaph
  • Release Date: Feb 17, 2009
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Billboard
    60
    Thursday's Epitaph debut melds the band's hardcore influences with shoegaze and atmospheric elements, with mixed results.
  2. Blender
    60
    Album No. 5--their first for indie stalwart Epitaph--amps up the band’s aggro guitars, cookie-monster yells and proggy ambition.
  3. The New York Times
    60
    Common Existence is the least pungent and immediate Thursday album since its debut. In places it sounds like an experiment, sometimes a successful one.
  5. PopMatters
    60
    Common Existence makes Thursday sound like a band that has settled in their skin without lazily settling on a sound.
  6. Rolling Stone
    50
    Unfortunately, the tunes aren't so hot, and Common Existence veers between overbearing and pretty ordinary.
  7. Filter
    46
    The sense of movement is missing here, that raw immediacy that powered "Full Collapse's" better tracks; the howls and breakdowns feel almost like quota-meters. Still, though, there are enough feedback squalls and keyboard squelches in Dave Friedmann's production to suggest Thursday have yet to run their course. [Winter 2009, p.100]
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