Leeds noisemakers Thank announce their second album I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed to be released on 8 November, their first with new label home Big Scary Monsters. 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), living and breathing the album 24 hours a day in the studio.
Vinehill-Cliffe shared the following:
“Three of us studied in Scarborough, and during that time we played in a few different embryonic versions of Thank. 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 from it ‘Do It Badly‘.
Vinehill-Cliff again:
“‘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.”
I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed promises to be 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.
Thank Live Dates
October
16 – New Cross Inn – London, UK
17 – Les Vieux de la Vieille – Reims, FR
18 – Waldmeister – Solingen, DE
19 – Magasin 4 – Brussels, BE
November
04 – Yes – Manchester, UK (w/Cherubs)
10 – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds UK
17 – The Fleece – Bristol UK (w/Future Of The Left)
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