As played out as the whole Jimmy Eat World-clone thing is, some bands (like Time Spent Driving) still manage to wring out a decent album from the mold.
Thrice execute the goose bumps-givin’ minor shred riffs like closet Exodus fans and convey a flood of raw emotion seldom achieved with technical arrangements.
How people continued to lump them with The Get Up Kids is beyond me. Wood/Water is a mature, thinking album, like Wilco writing acoustic songs for The Smiths.
Swirling, broken ghosts serenading long lost secrets; the gentleness in the callouses of your father’s hands. Volumes of pain, floating through eternity…