Thursday have returned with their first new song in 13 years, “Application for Release From the Dream.”
In addition to being Thursday’s first new song since their 2011 album, No Devolución, “Application for Release From the Dream” is also the band’s first fully independent release in 25 years. In a reflective statement the band shared on Thursday, they called themselves “just a group of friends still having fun together after all these years.”
“[No] matter the size of the stages we’ve played in those 25 years, we remain— at heart — a small band, a bunch of kids still screaming in a basement” the statement read. “But we’re your small band and we love you. Thanks for everything.” Read the full statement and stream “Application for Release From the Dream” below.
A stand-alone single, “Application for Release From the Dream” is likely just the first of a string of releases from Thursday. The song’s press release explains “the band are also continuing to work on more new music with plans to roll out songs as they record them, unmoored from the traditional approach of releasing albums.”
Meanwhile, Thursday will play a number of tour dates in the US and Europe, including a performance at When We Were Young in Las Vegas this October. Check out their upcoming dates, and grab tickets here.
Thursday’s full statement on the release of “Application for Release From the Dream”:
Tonight we release our first song in 13 years. It’s also our first release in 25 years WITHOUT a record label. That’s 25 years since we set out in a small white van to play basements and VFW Halls — attics, kitchens and back yards — with a bunch of burned CDRs marked in black Sharpie: “Summer Tour ‘99.” In those 25 years, there were so many highway breakdowns, so many emergency rooms, run-ins with the law. So much time laughing in the studio, so many hours huddled together backstage or loading gear in the rain. And yes, 25 years of legal disputes and public blowouts. But now we are free. Free to make our own mistakes. Free to turn this band into whatever we dream it to be, whether we want to make it a collective of rotating members, a small cottage industry, a publishing house, a record label, or just a group of friends still having fun together after all these years. So tonight we step on stage at a tiny independent venue like we would’ve played when we were releasing Full Collapse (23 years ago this week) or again when we released No Devolucion (13 years ago this week). The kind of place we hope we get to keep playing at for as long as they’ll have us. Because no matter the size of the stages we’ve played in those 25 years, we remain— at heart — a small band, a bunch of kids still screaming in a basement. But we’re your small band and we love you. Thanks for everything. We’ll see you at midnight, in your time zone. “It’s just a moment now.”