{"product_id":"thou-umbilical-cd","title":"Thou - Umbilical (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails: \u003c\/strong\u003eThou has always been a force of raw energy and unapologetic dissent, defying easy\r\ncategorization and challenging listeners to confront the complexities of existence.\r\nThough often lumped in with New Orleans sludge bands like Eyehategod and Crowbar, Thou transcends genre boundaries, drawing inspiration from a diverse array of\r\ninfluences spanning from '90s proto-grunge icons like Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and\r\nSoundgarden (all of whom they've covered extensively) to the raw intensity of obscure\r\n'90s DIY hardcore punk found on labels like Ebullition, Vermiform, and Crimethinc.\r\nTheir latest record Umbilical, Thou's first full-length release of original music since\r\ntheir 2018 Sacred Bones debut Magus, is their firmest nod to the latter - a record filled\r\nwith mosh-ready riffs, heavy breakdowns and scathing vocals. The band's aesthetic and\r\npolitical impulses have always been punk and like anyone embroiled in the subculture\r\nThou have been exploring what it means to exist within and without a rigid morality.\r\nThat exploration takes thematic center on Umbilical and their self-assessment is as\r\nharsh as that of the world around them.\r\nThey've called us anarchists, criminals, foreign meddlers, lunatics, dispossessed, relativists,\r\nutilitarians, egoists, passion maximizers, ascetics, negators of everything. Clearly, the \"Thou\"\r\nexperiment is never going to appeal to audiences who demand that art rigorously enforce a\r\ncoherent and righteous worldview.\r\nAnd yet, are we not ourselves constrained by our own rigid morality? In those quiet moments\r\nof deep contemplation, when the bargains and concessions are thoroughly examined, when\r\nwe yield before the Judging Eye-what is the summation of our choices? If the unspoiled self\r\nbeyond the immensity of time were given voice, what pronouncements would be made? What\r\nwould such an internal audit yield? What undeniable character would be revealed?\r\nThis record is for the radicals, the crackpots, the exiles who have escaped the wasteland of\r\ncapitulation. This record is for the militants and zealots refusing to surrender to comforts, to\r\npracticalities, to thirty pieces of silver. And this record is most especially for the weaklings and\r\nmalingerers, burdened by capricious indulgence, hunched by the deep wounds of compromise,\r\nshuffling in limp approximation, desperately reaching back towards integrity and conviction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNarcissist's Prayer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Emotional Terrorist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lonely Vigil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e House of Ideas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Feel Nothing When You Cry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Unbidden Guest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e I Return as Chained and Bound to You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Promise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Panic Stricken I Flee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Siege Perilous\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50400964149522,"sku":"843563174135","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/4324958-3133967.jpg?v=1729119277","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/thou-umbilical-cd","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}