THOU Release New Album Umbilical Today via Sacred Bones
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Making Sense of Thou’s Messy Metal Discography - Interview with Bandcamp Daily
Thou turns a piercing critical eye inward on fierce ‘Umbilical’ - Interview with Gambit
“‘I Feel Nothing When You Cry’ feels like an oddly accessible entry point into Thou's caustic doom: it's rough, rowdy and hooky… This song is built to destroy some punk basement in small-town America.” NPR
“If you love it heavy, if you love it hard, if you love it harsh, you’re going to love Thou”
The Needle Drop
“four minutes of blackened, sludgy madness” Brooklyn Vegan
“slathered in textures of feedback and harsh howling vocals” Consequence
“This is simultaneously both the most pulverising and the most memorable release the band have put their name to in years.” Kerrang!
“Thou pay homage to their punk side with a litany of scorching, fast-paced tracks" FLOOD
“jaw-droppingly explosive songs” (Album of the Week) Treble
“a direct and immediate assault… the most fervent work they have produced” - PopMatters
“holy hell is it heavy, as if touched by the finger of god” New Noise Magazine
Thou has always been a force of raw energy and unapologetic dissent, defying easy categorization and challenging listeners to confront the complexities of existence. Today they release their crushing new album Umbilical on Sacred Bones. It’s their firmest nod to the raw intensity of obscure '90s DIY hardcore punk. It’s a record filled with mosh-ready riffs, heavy breakdowns and scathing vocals. The band’s aesthetic and political impulses have always been punk and like anyone embroiled in the subculture Thou have been exploring what it means to exist within and without a rigid morality. That exploration takes thematic center on Umbilical and their self-assessment is as harsh as that of the world around them.
"They've called us anarchists, criminals, foreign meddlers, lunatics, dispossessed, relativists, utilitarians, egoists, passion maximizers, ascetics, negators of everything. Clearly, the "Thou" experiment is never going to appeal to audiences who demand that art rigorously enforce a coherent and righteous worldview.
And yet, are we not ourselves constrained by our own rigid morality? In those quiet moments of deep contemplation, when the bargains and concessions are thoroughly examined, when we yield before the Judging Eye--what is the summation of our choices? If the unspoiled self beyond the immensity of time were given voice, what pronouncements would be made? What would such an internal audit yield? What undeniable character would be revealed?
This record is for the radicals, the crackpots, the exiles who have escaped the wasteland of capitulation. This record is for the militants and zealots refusing to surrender to comforts, to practicalities, to thirty pieces of silver. And this record is most especially for the weaklings and malingerers, burdened by capricious indulgence, hunched by the deep wounds of compromise, shuffling in limp approximation, desperately reaching back towards integrity and conviction."
- Thou
Photo By Liam Neighbors
Umbilical Digital & CD Track Listing:
1 - Narcissist's Prayer
2 - Emotional Terrorist
3 - Lonely Vigil
4 - House of Ideas
5 - I Feel Nothing When You Cry
6 - Unbidden Guest
7 - I Return as Chained and Bound to You
8 - The Promise
9 - Panic Stricken, I Flee
10 - Siege Perilous
Umbilical Physical Track List:
LP Side A
1 - Narcissist’s Prayer
2 - Emotional Terrorist
3 - Lonely Vigil
4 - House of Ideas
LP Side B
5 - I Return as Chained and Bound to You
6 - The Promise
7 - Panic Stricken, I Flee
8 - Siege Perilous
7" Tracks
1 - I Feel Nothing When You Cry
2 - Unbidden Guest
Thou Live Dates:
Jun 01: New Orleans, LA - Zeitgeist (Record Release Show w/ SLOWHOLE)
Jul 28: New Orleans, LA - The Broadside (w/ The Body + Dis Fig and Nail Club)
Aug 14: The Zoo - Brisbane, AU *
Aug 15: Mary’s Underground - Sydney, AU *
Aug 16: The Baso - Canberra, AU *
Aug 17: Stay Gold - Melbourne, AU *
Aug 18: Crown & Anchor - Adelaide, AU *
Aug 22: Altar - Hobart, AU *
Aug 23: Rolling Stone - Christchurch, NZ *
Aug 24: Meow - Wellington, NZ *
Aug 25: Galatos - Auckland, NZ *
Sep 14: Richmond, VA - The Broadberry
* w/ Full of Hell
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