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“Utilising phat grooves and electronic scrapings to bring noise rock kicking and screaming into the volatile 2020s, Thoughtless Cruelty is snotty and abrasive, fuelled by impotent rage.”
JR Moores, The Quietus

“A kind of mad melding of Pissed Jeans and Lady Gaga.”
Dominic Haley, Loud and Quiet

“This Leeds band pairs brawny arrangements with furious, bug-eyed vocals.”
Bandcamp Daily

 

Thank formed in 2016 out of Leeds’ notorious DIY collective CHUNK, and over the next half-decade they gained acclaim for the EPs ‘Sexghost Hellscape’ and ‘Please’, toured in mainland Europe, and caught the attention of heavy hitters like Idles with their combination of anxious disco grooves and harsh noise freakouts.

The band’s debut full length ‘Thoughtless Cruelty’ was released via Box Records (Lower Slaughter, USA Nails, Psychic Graveyard) and Exploding In Sound (Pile, Big Ups, Krill) in February 2022. The album is a stark observation of human cruelty filtered through the band’s grim fascinations including long term nuclear warnings, CNN’s Turner Doomsday Video (opener 'From Heaven' is a partial reworking of the Latin verse from 'Nearer My God To Thee', the hymn performed in that video), and the business-as-usual liberal politics which has given way to the global rise of the far right.

The initial run of ‘Thoughtless Cruelty’ sold out almost immediately, in part due to the single ‘Dread’ being championed by Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 Music and John Kennedy on Radio X.

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