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The Thermals – Desperate Ground
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Artist……………: The Thermals
Album…………….: Desperate Ground
Genre…………….: punk
Source……………: NMR
Year……………..: 2013
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The Thermals (Hutch Harris, Kathy Foster, and Westin Glass) are a post-pop-punk trio from pre-Portlandia-Portland, Oregon. The band was formed in 2002 and has since released six records and toured fifteen countries. The Thermals and Saddle Creek have a long history of sleeping on floors together: The Thermals have toured with Cursive and Ladyfinger, and Hutch and Kathy organized the first Bright Eyes show in Portland way back in 1999.
Desperate Ground, The Thermals’ newest LP and debut for Saddle Creek, was produced by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth) in Hoboken, NJ. Agnello and The Thermals completed the record and evacuated the studio just hours before Hurricane Sandy ravaged New Jersey, a fate quite fitting when you consider the product. Desperate Ground is a true scrappy and scratchy return-to-form for The Thermals, with all the raw power and unhinged adolescent energy that made their early LP’s so insanely enjoyable.
Lyrically, Desperate Ground is a brash and irresponsible ode to human violence, a black celebration of the inevitability of war and death. A dark and yet joyous affair, Desperate Ground tells the (murky) tale of a lone rogue in the night. One man, one path, one sword. An unceasing urge to destroy. A never-ending battle against the forces of nature. A destiny impossible to avoid.
Desperate Ground
Author: David Bevan
01/11/2013 | Spin.com | www.spin.com | Album Review
“We were halfway through writing the record and I realized that a lot of the songs were about death,” says Thermals frontman Hutch Harris of his Portland punk trio’s recently completed sixth full-length, Desperate Ground, due April 16 on Saddle Creek. “It was coming together like an action film. All the songs are written from this singular point view: It could be a soldier, it could be a hunter, and it could also be the hunted.” But opener and explosive first single “Born ro Kill,” Harris says, was originally meant to be a closer and character resolution for Desperate Ground’s protagonist. “To me, the whole journey of the record was more about someone learning to deal with the harsh reality around them. I wanted to start with someone who was fighting for freedom and fighting for their family, someone who doesn’t enjoy killing but is doing it because it’s necessary. Ultimately, that character realizes, “Oh I was born to kill, I was made to do this. It’s what I’m good at.’ Full Metal Jacket is one of my favorite movies, and Gomer Pyle has two pins: one’s a peace sign and there other says ‘Born to Kill.'”
Written and recorded over the second half of last year, Desperate Ground, Harris says, was shaped in many ways the spate of gun-related violence “when every week someone was shooting up another place in the U.S.” But the record is not, Harris insists, about “a serial killer” or “someone who goes and shoots up a movie theater or a school.” Originally, he explains, the Thermals wanted to make a record about war. “A large, faceless war that never ends,” he says, “not a specific war, not specifically about what’s going on right now in the world. But just inevitable, endless war. You couldn’t get away from these stories or the reality that people are shooting up a room of other people every other week. It was something on our mind, but we weren’t trying to write about that specifically. It seemed really inappropriate and appropriate at the same time.”
Clocking in at just under two minutes long, “Born to Kill” is a burst of primal, head-clearing punk akin to their first three, soon-to-be reissued full-lengths, 2003’s More Parts Per Million, 2004’s Fuckin’ A, and 2006’s The Body, the Blood, the Machine. “I think we’re doing what people like best about this band on this record,” Harris says. “It’s us getting back to what we’re best at and what people love about us, which is really direct, really fast, really loud, and kinda crazy.”
Desperate Ground
04/16/2013 | Paste | www.pastemagazine.com | Album Review
For just over a decade The Thermals have stuck to their scrappy, good-timin’ punk formula. And they’ve done it better than anyone, making economical four-chord rock that’s still potent and thrilling. The Portland trio deviated from that path in recent years, albeit only slightly. On Now We Can See they embraced squeaky-clean production and bubblegummy boy-girl choruses, and 2011’s Personal Life took on a darker new wave bent, driven by Kathy Foster’s fuzzy bass lines.
Of course, anticipation for a new Thermals record these days is less about the music as it is the topic they decide to take on. And both of those records continued singer-guitarist Hutch Harris’ thematic approach to working through life’s big questions, a trend that started with the band’s untouchable 2006 political indictment The Body, The Blood, The Machine.
As with past albums, Desperate Ground (their first on Saddle Creek) sounds like a rock and roll party, even though the underlying theme is much more stark. In fact, it really can’t get much darker. This time around Harris gets to the root of what drives someone to kill. It’s pretty heady stuff for the times we’re living in, but Harris doesn’t point to any particular events, keeping his examination of the human psyche universal and timeless.
“Born to Kill” draws first blood (ahem), exploding like a bomb with Harris sounding particularly nasty: “I was made to slay unafraid to spill / blood on the land when you command I will.” The intensity doesn’t let up through Desperate Ground’s 10 tracks, which clock in at just under a half-hour. “The Sunset” and “The Howl of the Wind” offer a little respite, both musically and lyrically. And even though they still grapple with the internal struggle of someone who’s done the unthinkable, they come off more as sobering realizations than crazy-eyed manifestos. But there is a survivor in all this. “Our Love Survives” closes things on a tender note – tender that is if you’re Mickey and Mallory Knox.
The production from John Agnello, who’s done terrific work with Dinosaur Jr. and The Hold Steady, can’t be overlooked. The grit found on The Thermals’ early records has returned, and it gives Desperate Ground a proper snuff-film graininess. There are no harmonies, leaving Harris’s vocals to cut through like a rusty saw blade. And guitars are thoroughly cranked, held taut by Foster’s fuzz bass and Westin Glass’s slappy drumming.
Desperate Ground is easily the best Thermals record since The Body, The Blood, The Machine. It’s a return what the trio does best: Making your body move to pogo, while your brain quietly weeps for humanity. Nothing like a little bloodshed to get the blood, and the fists, pumping.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/04/the-thermals-desperate-ground.html?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=130416
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Tracklisting
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1. The Thermals – Born To Kill [01:48]
2. The Thermals – You Will Be Free [02:45]
3. The Thermals – The Sunset [02:51]
4. The Thermals – I Go Alone [03:12]
5. The Thermals – The Sword By My Side [03:10]
6. The Thermals – You Will Find Me [02:22]
7. The Thermals – Faces Stay With Me [02:32]
8. The Thermals – The Howl Of The Winds [02:29]
9. The Thermals – Where I Stand [02:08]
10. The Thermals – Our Love Survives [03:08]
Playing Time………: 26:30
Total Size………..: 54.59 MB
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