Sludge metallic band Thou have introduced a brand new album, Umbilical, out Could thirty first by way of Sacred Bones. As a preview, the lead single, “I Really feel Nothing When You Cry,” is out at this time.
Identified for his or her tectonic sludge-doom, the NOLA outfit speeds issues up on its newest observe. A propulsive groove units the tempo and locks in, although it’s slathered in textures of suggestions and harsh howling vocals. If there was an accessible punk music buried underneath there, Thou — by no means one for compromises — handle to tough it up past recognition.
Umbilical would be the group’s third full-length on Sacred Bones, following its 2020 collaborative effort with Emma Ruth Rundle, Could Our Chambers Be Full. The band shared the next artist assertion relating to Umbilical:
“They’ve known as us anarchists, criminals, international meddlers, lunatics, dispossessed, relativists, utilitarians, egoists, ardour maximizers, ascetics, negators of every thing. Clearly, the ‘Thou’ experiment isn’t going to enchantment to audiences who demand that artwork rigorously implement a coherent and righteous worldview.
And but, are we not ourselves constrained by our personal inflexible morality? In these quiet moments of deep contemplation, when the bargains and concessions are totally examined, after we yield earlier than the Judging Eye–what’s the summation of our decisions? If the unspoiled self past the immensity of time got voice, what pronouncements could be made? What would such an inner audit yield? What simple character could be revealed?
This file is for the radicals, the crackpots, the exiles who’ve escaped the wasteland of capitulation. This file is for the militants and zealots refusing to give up to comforts, to practicalities, to thirty items of silver. And this file is most particularly for the weaklings and malingerers, burdened by capricious indulgence, hunched by the deep wounds of compromise, shuffling in limp approximation, desperately reaching again in direction of integrity and conviction.”
Thou additionally unveiled a handful of stay dates, together with a Palestine profit present on Saturday (April thirteenth) on the Fred Hampton Free Retailer in New Orleans. The band may also be heading on a brief tour of Australia and New Zealand with Stuffed with Hell in August.
As for bodily releases of Umbilical, Sacred Bones is issuing a single LP that additionally features a 7″ that includes the tracks “I Really feel Nothing When You Cry” and “Unbidden Visitor.” Digital variations and CD copies function the total unabridged 10-song tracklist together with each “I Really feel Nothing When You Cry” and “Unbidden Visitor.” Pre-orders can be found by way of Sacred Bones.
You’ll be able to stream “I Really feel Nothing When You Cry” and see the album artwork and tracklist beneath.
Umbilical Art work:
Umbilical Tracklist:
01. Narcissist’s Prayer
02. Emotional Terrorist
03. Lonely Vigil
04. Home of Concepts
05. I Really feel Nothing When You Cry
06. Unbidden Visitor
07. I Return as Chained and Sure to You
08. The Promise
09. Panic Stricken, I Flee
10. Siege Perilous