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Here they determinedly ease layer upon cacophonous layer to their methodically set stage before burning it to the ground. As with their previous full lengths, the songs were recorded with Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOff the back of their 5th LP (\u003ci\u003eCharacter Stop\u003c\/i\u003e) released mid-pandemic in October 2020, and a split single with ex-Sepultura noise duo Petbrick, USA Nails serve up six cuts of slabby noise-rock \/ angular post-punk \/ dissonant no-wave, featuring notes that work, notes that don't work, wonky out of tune ping-pong guitars, dumb business riffs, shit solos, and musings on clinically medicated anxiety, internet commentators and Orwellian data practices. Although he didn't realise it at the time, drummer Tom Brewins broke his arm just before the band recorded with Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse in London. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe got better, but maybe the rest of us won’t. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Box Records","offers":[{"title":"White | LP","offer_id":50460660236619,"sku":"1147919","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3d8ae242-6e69-40ef-ba5d-9946e09ecf96_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727236272"},{"product_id":"thoughtless-cruelty","title":"Thoughtless Cruelty","description":"\u003cp\u003eBox Records is pleased to welcome the debut album from Leeds noise rock band Thank.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThoughtless Cruelty\u003c\/i\u003e is a stark observation of human cruelty filtered through the band’s grim fascinations including long term nuclear warnings, CNN’s Turner Doomsday Video (opening song 'From Heaven' is a partial reworking of the Latin verse from 'Nearer My God To Thee', the hymn performed in that video), the writings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and the \"business as usual\" liberal politics which has given way to the global rise of the far right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike Thank’s previous material, which was largely honed at gigs and then recorded almost entirely live, the pandemic found the band in unchartered territory as they hit the studio having not been in the same building for months, including most of the album’s writing period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSays vocalist Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe on the recording of the album - \"It was a very different way of working for us; most of the songs did not have an arrangement figured out, we added layers to serve each track without worrying about how it would translate in a live setting. 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