I’m seeing Thrice live for the first time in like 20 odd years later this year (November 21st, circle the date) and stumbled upon Modern Color since they’ll be opening the show for them. And hot damn did Thrice ever pick a banger of a young band to open up for them in Modern Color. From the Leaves of Your Garden is sort of this fun amalgamation of post-hardcore heaviness with the hazy textures of shoegaze. You can tell Thrice probably saw a lot of their artistic sensibilities in this band with the layered guitars, odd rhythmic timing and vocals that shift between melancholic singing and desperate screams. It’s sort of like Thrice time traveled to Seattle’s grunge scene in 1993, honed their craft, and then jumped to the early 2000’s and studied the Deftones’ love for dynamic contrasts before putting out this album.
All this to say, this album is good. Damn good. It’s one of those records that has stuck with me for a long time after listening to it, a similar emotion to the one I experienced with Casey’s 2024 cut How To Disappear or Pianos Become The Teeth’s 2014 album Keep You. These are works of art that feel transcendental in many ways, both for their artistic honesty and uniqueness within the confines of a well-worn genre that they exist in. From The Leaves of Your Garden makes me feel the same way those albums did when I first heard them. And that’s a good and powerful thing.
Standout Songs: “On & Off”, “Alone”, “Empty Rooms”, “Pale”
