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Perhaps the biggest record from that early 00s east coast post-hardcore screamo please-don’t-call-it-emo scene, alongside Taking Back Sunday’s Tell All Your Friends (both recorded with the same producer at the same studio and released on the same label). Even PharmaBro is a Thursday fan, but don’t let that dissuade you. Geoff Rickley’s atonal vocals can be a little hard to digest even when he’s not screaming, but it’s all part of the austerity of the subject matter, yielding song titles like “Understanding In A Car Crash,” “Paris In Flames,” “A Hole In The World,” “I Am The Killer,” etc. They had some major disagreements with their label (who produced Thursday-branded whoopee cushions as a promo item) after this, which led them to sign with Island Def Jam, but they were never able to conjure the urgency and immediacy of Full Collapse again. “Standing On The Edge Of Summer” and “Autobiography Of A Nation” are other standouts. 21st anniversary edition spread across three 10-inches, housed in deluxe book-bound packaging.