The Illusion of Safety

In April 2018, Hopeless Records founder Louis Posen cited The Illusion of Safety as one of the label’s top ten releases with the following explanation:

This record to me is not just their jumping off point, it’s their iconic point where they became what Thrice is.[…] this was a huge record in the history of the label and the band. It was also sort of our beginning in a new era of the label where screamo and heavy music started to combine with punk rock. This record was right at the beginning, before they claimed screamo.