Today, cantankerous Leeds noisemakers Thank, announce their second studio album “I Have a Physical Body That Can Be Harmed” to be released on November 9th, 2024 – their first album with Big Scary Monsters.
The announcement of the album follows the roaring success of the single “Writing Out a List of All the Names of God”, which earned the band the support of BBC Radio 6’s Emily Pilbeam, The Line Of Best Fit, Dork, FLOOD and Louder Than War, the last of which called the track “Confidently the single of the year”. Their full-length debut 2022’s “Thoughtless Cruelty”, earned the band supporters in The Needle Drop’s Anthony Fantano, BBC Radio 6’s Steve Lamacq, The Quietus, Loud & Quiet as well as fans amoung fellow musicians, IDLES, Yard Act, PigsX7 and McLusky.
Thank, composed of vocalist and guitarist Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe, guitar and synth player Lewis Millward, bassist Cameron Moitt, and drummer Steve Myles, recorded “I Have a Physical Body That Can Be Harmed” in late 2023 at Beckview studios in Scarborough alongside long-time producer Rob Slater (Blacklisters, Mush), effectively living and breathing the album 24 hours a day in the studio.
“Three of us studied in Scarborough, and during that time we played in a few different embryonic versions of Thank”, explains Vinehill-Cliffe. “We had barely visited for ten years, and in the meantime, our old campus has shut down, our former practice space has been demolished to make way for luxury flats, and almost everyone we knew has moved away. So we were in this ostensibly familiar place where basically every trace of our existence was gone, it was a weird headspace to be in”.
Along with the announcement of “I Have a Physical Body That Can Be Harmed”, Thank have also shared a second single towards the album, “Do It Badly”. “‘Do It Badly’ has become kind of a motivational mantra in my household. If something is important to you, I think it’s really helpful to acknowledge that getting it done to any standard, even a poor standard, even a total shitshow standard, is better than not doing it at all. So this is a motivational song, but it’s also kind of about the joy of malicious compliance – for example, I tried to come up with the funniest possible combination of beer and pint glass someone could serve in a pub if they wanted to piss off a customer, and I landed on a pint of Guinness in a Madri glass. There’s also some stuff in there about the possibility of beloved sitcom actors also being CIA assets”.
Thank have also shared a TechNoir session for their new single, “Do It Badly” recorded at Damaged Goods Studio in Leeds which you can watch below.
Pre-order “I Have a Physical Body That Can Be Harmed” here.
Tracklist:
1.Control
2. Woke Frasier
3. Do It Badly
4. The Spores
5. Down With the Sickness
6. Barely
7. Smiling Politely
8. Dead Dog in a Ditch
9. Perhaps Today
10. Writing Out a List of All the Names of God
Fast earning a reputation as “your favourite musician’s favourite musician”, Thank have gained momentum for their unique concoction of anxious disco grooves, harsh noise freakouts and inscrutable sprechgesang bluster – a legacy continued on “I Have a Physical Body That Can Be Harmed”. “Thematically all the old classics are in there – sex, death, and Twitter brain-rot”, explains Vinehill-Cliffe speaking on the upcoming album. “I don’t think I’m necessarily trying to say anything I haven’t tried to say before, I’ve just gotten better at saying it. I still hate landlords, I still hate right-wing grifters, I still hate people who hide their cruelty behind progressive language. I do hate myself quite a bit less, so there’s some hope and positivity in there too, as a treat”.
Earlier this year, Thank signed to the independent record label Big Scary Monsters, quickly following the news of the signing with the release of the well-received “Writing Out a List of All the Names of God” and a performance in a packed tent at ArcTanGent Festival, with further shows scheduled in the UK and Europe for the rest of the year.
“I Have a Physical Body That Can Be Harmed” is a brash, satirical and downright stomping full-length that combines the raw ferocity of the band’s early work with the ambitious arrangements and electronic experimentation of their more recent output. The end result combines hardware techno squelch, jungle-inspired drumming, synth-pop bombast and anarcho-punk spartan aggression, acid-fried and internet-poisoned with a shit-eating grin on its face, landing somewhere akin to The Cure’s “The Head on the Door” if it was remixed by ‘Jenny Death’- era Death Grips.
Thank will also be appearing live at dates across the UK and Europe, the full list of dates is below.
UK & European Tour Dates 2024:
16.10 – New Cross Inn – London, UK
17.10 – Les Vieux de la Vieille – Reims, FR
18.10 – Waldmeister – Solingen, DE
19.10 – Magasin 4 – Brussels, BE
04.11 – Yes – Manchester, UK*
10.11 – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds UK
17.11 – The Fleece – Bristol UK**
* (w/ Cherubs)
** (w/ Future Of The Left)
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