Can we talk about this Thermals album?

I wonder if you could love this album without being in love with the idea of American indie rock, particularly the variety from the northwest. Everything about this record screams indie, from the fuzzy production right down to the sincerity with which the curse words are delivered, and I like it.

it reminds me of a politico pacific northwest indiepunk vers. of the mountain goats.

new album,Now We Can See,april 7.
will be checked.

Are these two songs that just turned up on eMusic new stuff? They moved to the Kill Rock Stars label, so I think the new disc should be on eMusic (at least I hope so).

the first - yes
the second - no

1 When I Died
2 We Were Sick
3 I Let It Go
4 Now We Can See
5 At the Bottom of the Sea
6 When We Were Alive
7 I Called Out Your Name
8 When I Was Afraid
9 Liquid In, Liquid Out
10 How We Fade
11 You Dissolve

first listen -
pros:pretty tight,well written melodic punk-pop
cons:kinda banal melodic pop-punk

"At the Bottom of the Sea" might be their best song. I'm not even sure that anyone cares, but I had to say it somewhere.

Still haven't heard the new album, but will pick it up used sometime. Loved the last one.

i find the newie pretty amazing, but then again i'd never heard 'em before.

oh wow, yeah, i forgot about this, will listen tonight!

Loved more parts per million, but after that I couldn't really be bothered. This new one kindof annoyed me when I heard it. Times New Viking are itching that spot for me nowadays, but that's probs because the thermals have moved on from where they were five years ago to something I'm just not interested in.

they are the only band currently making good concept albums.

green day

Loved more parts per million, but after that I couldn't really be bothered.

Same. I saw them a couple years ago and got so bored I just sat at the bar and got drunk while I waited for my friends. It surprised me because I loved them so the previous time I saw them.

The new one is really, really good. REALLY good.

every album a winner, until the new one. yaaaawn.

new album out today:
http://nodata.tv/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Personal-Life-320x320.jpg

1. I'm Gonna Change Your Life 2:59
2. I Don't Believe You 2:38
3. Never Listen To Me 4:30
4. Not Like Any Other Feeling 3:34
5. Power Lies 2:58
6. Only For You 4:17
7. Alone, a Fool 2:08
8. Your Love Is So Strong 3:00
9. A Reflection 2:37
10. You Changed My Life 3:25

from Amazon:
Product Description
Over the course of seven years and four LP's, The Thermals have tackled religion, politics, and death with no small amount of passion and fervor. With their fifth LP, The Thermals have battled (and perhaps even conquered!) the deepest and darkest of all popular art themes- love. Not that The Thermals
haven't sung/spoken/screamed about the wide range of emotions love produces and abuses. But never before have The Thermals devoted an entire LP to love, loss, and lies! More than an album strictly about love, Personal Life is about relationships. It's about the concept of a connection between two people -making it, breaking it, and faking it. Personal Life amounts to the indie-rock equivalent of a brilliant but ultimately doomed love affair. A beautiful, turbulent experience that will hopefully leave you wiser in the ways of love and life.
Personal Life is something of retro-technical achievement. Producer Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie, Tegan and Sara) recorded The Thermals the same way in which he produced their 2004 LP. The band was recorded live (for the most part) to tape, and the album was mixed to tape as well. The sonic care Walla gave to Personal Life assures an enjoyable listen for audiophiles (the vinyl was mastered straight from tape) as well as for the rest of us who don't care and will be listening on awful headphones and Radio Shack speakers.

It's the album fans will admit isn't as good as the last few, but say they still kind of like, but then never listen to after this month.

That's pretty much what I thought about the last 2 tbh.

it kinda irks me when ppl write about recording analog as if it's some sort of gimmick instead of like, the way records were made for the the majority of recorded music

^ Hmm. I think people like to mention it just because it is more difficult to arrange and more expensive than digital recording. Saying a record is analog is no longer a line-in-the-sand as it was in the early 00s when The Breeders and Low put those AAA stickers on their albums. Now it's more of a statement of commitment to that portion of a fanbase.

this album is as good as the last four thermals albums, which is to say pretty good

It sounds exactly like a Thermals album. As Whiney says, which is to say pretty good. Not one person will say, "Wow. This is a surprise."

Saw them last night in Oakland, really fun show.

oof

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17876-the-thermals-desperate-ground/

Biggest surprise to me in that review is finding out that there was a Thermals album in 2010.

some people seem to have thought it was ok, but personally i couldn't stick with it after (what i thought was) the high of 'now we can see'.

AT LEAST IT WAS SHORT