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Thou<\/a><\/strong> is back with their first non-collaborative album since 2018 and a crushing single to kick things off. Thou<\/a><\/strong> is now streaming “I Feel Nothing When You Cry” from their new record Umbilical<\/em>, due out May 31 via Sacred Bones Records. Of course none of this is to say Thou<\/a><\/strong> hasn’t been busy \u2013 since 2018, they’ve released collaborative records with The Body<\/a><\/strong>, Emma Ruth Rundle<\/a><\/strong>, and Mizmor<\/a><\/strong> alongside a boatload of compilations.<\/p>\n “They’ve called us anarchists, criminals, foreign meddlers, lunatics, dispossessed, relativists, utilitarians, egoists, passion maximizers, ascetics, negators of everything,” said Thou<\/a><\/strong>. “Clearly, the Thou<\/a><\/strong> experiment is never going to appeal to audiences who demand that art rigorously enforce a coherent and righteous worldview.<\/p>\n “And yet, are we not ourselves constrained by our own rigid morality? In those quiet moments of deep contemplation, when the bargains and concessions are thoroughly examined, when we yield before the Judging Eye\u2013what is the summation of our choices? If the unspoiled self beyond the immensity of time were given voice, what pronouncements would be made? What would such an internal audit yield? What undeniable character would be revealed?<\/p>\n “This record is for the radicals, the crackpots, the exiles who have escaped the wasteland of capitulation. This record is for the militants and zealots refusing to surrender to comforts, to practicalities, to thirty pieces of silver. And this record is most especially for the weaklings and malingerers, burdened by capricious indulgence, hunched by the deep wounds of compromise, shuffling in limp approximation, desperately reaching back towards integrity and conviction.”<\/p>\n Umbilical<\/em> is available for pre-order here<\/a>. You can also catch Thou<\/a><\/strong> at one of the dates below.<\/p>\n 4\/13 New Orleans, LA \u2013 Palestine Benefit at Fred Hampton Free Store \n
5\/4 Providence, RI \u2013 AS220
7\/28 New Orleans, LA \u2013 The Broadside (w\/ The Body + Dis Fig<\/strong> & Nail Club<\/strong>)
8\/14 The Zoo \u2013 Brisbane, AU (w\/ Full Of Hell<\/a><\/strong>)
8\/15 Mary\u2019s Underground \u2013 Sydney, AU (w\/ Full Of Hell<\/a><\/strong>)
8\/16 The Baso \u2013 Canberra, AU (w\/ Full Of Hell<\/a><\/strong>)
8\/17 Stay Gold \u2013 Melbourne, AU (w\/ Full Of Hell<\/a><\/strong>)
8\/18 Crown & Anchor \u2013 Adelaide, AU (w\/ Full Of Hell<\/a><\/strong>)
8\/23 Rolling Stone \u2013 Christchurch, NZ (w\/ Full Of Hell<\/a><\/strong>)
8\/24 Meow \u2013 Wellington, NZ (w\/ Full Of Hell<\/a><\/strong>)
8\/25 Galatos \u2013 Auckland, NZ (w\/ Full Of Hell<\/a><\/strong>)
9\/13-15 Richmond, VA \u2013 Persistent Vision Fest<\/p>\n