Thou has officially announced that their new album, Umbilical, will be released on May 31st, and they have released the first single from this new project, titled “I Feel Nothing When You Cry.”
The band has released many collaborative albums over the past few years with artists like Emma Ruth Rundle and Mizmor, but this new album is all their own, and it is their first full-length album release since their 2018 debut album, Magus. A recent press release describes it as “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.”
As for the lead single of the new album, “I Feel Nothing When You Cry,” the band believes that the track is the “album centerpiece,” describing it in a recent press release as “a throwaway mantra scraped from the necrotic skin of syndicated television. A lugubrious nod to our favorite commode-crooning diva, one of her most diabolically terse lines. With the sweet, sultry whispers of a legendary New Orleans faerie. This might be as close as we’ll get to a positive, youth crew anthem. ‘This song has nothing original or of value. It’s a steady beat for dancing feet. You got what you wanted, now say the words…'”
Umbilical Tracklist:
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
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