The album's title, coupled with it being released approximately two years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led many critics to believe it was a political album ; however, Rickly has denied this on many accounts, instead claiming that he is speaking about love being a war.

The title is influenced by a poem from Octavio Paz – Rickly combined two lines from one of his poems (" Sunstone ") to create the title.

" Geoff Rickly has stated that the primary lyrical theme is devotion.

Geoffrey William Rickly ( born March 8, 1979 is the lead singer and songwriter of Thursday, an American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey.

A tattoo on his forearm reads " love is love ", a lyric from the band Frail ; Rickly adopted these lyrics into Thursday's " A Hole in the World.

Rickly had recently collaborated with My American Heart for the track " We Are the Fabrication ".

* Geoff Rickly ( born 1979 ), lead singer of the band Thursday.

* All lyrics written by Geoff Rickly except for " Ný batterí ", originally written by Jón Þór Birgisson

Thursday, heavily influenced by Joy Division, formed in 1997 by vocalist Geoff Rickly, guitarist Tom Keeley, guitarist Bill Henderson, bassist Tim Payne, and drummer Tucker Rule.

In a March 2009 interview, Rickly explained the album's title refers to humanity's shared experience, and that many of the songs were influenced by the words of his favorite poets and authors.

Cormac McCarthy has also influenced Rickly.

Vocalist Geoff Rickly commented on the style of the new album, stating, " In style, this record feels like a radical departure from our earlier records but in substance it feels like a return.

Kevin, best friend to Geoff Rickly, had committed suicide soon after moving to San Francisco.

The song Dying in New Brunswick was written by Geoff Rickly about his girlfriend who moved to New Brunswick and was raped while she was there.

Rickly grew up in Dumont, New Jersey.

Rickly has contributed guest vocals to many songs, including My American Heart's " We Are the Fabrication ", Murder by Death's " Killbot 2000 ", This Day Forward's " Sunfalls and Watershine ", and Circa Survive's " The Lottery.

Lyrically, Rickly has been known to draw from a wide variety of influences, many of them being authors and poets.

Rickly insists that his main effort will remain Thursday.

Eyeball Records also had an imprint label Astro Magnetics, which was owned by Eyeball Records manager Marc Debiak, Alex Saavedra and Thursday's Geoff Rickly.

Around the same time the band met Thursday vocalist, Geoff Rickly, when the two bands played on the same bill at a gig in their hometown of Bloomington.

Rickly introduced the band, known at the time as Little Joe Gould, to his friend Alex Saavedra ( owner of Eyeball Records ), who also took an interest in the band.

Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly provides guest vocals on the Who Will Survive ... track " Killbot 2000.

A Philadelphia distiller is currently breaching the customary prohibition against hard-liquor advertising on TV and radio.

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