Even voorstellen – Thou – Umbilical

THOU ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM UMBILICAL, DUE 31ST MAY VIA SACRED BONES

 "I FEEL NOTHING WHEN YOU CRY”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xduNsuJVxGs

SELECT DATES ANNOUNCED, INCLUDING THE NEW ORLEANS PALESTINE BENEFIT ON 13TH APRIL

"They've called us anarchists, criminals, foreign meddlers, lunatics, dispossessed, relativists, utilitarians, egoists, passion maximizers, ascetics, negators of everything. Clearly, the "Thou" experiment is never going to appeal to audiences who demand that art rigorously enforce a coherent and righteous worldview.

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--what 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?

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." – THOU

Thou has always been a force of raw energy and unapologetic dissent, defying easy categorization and challenging listeners to confront the complexities of existence. Their forthcoming album, Umbilical, is their firmest nod to the latter - a record filled with mosh-ready riffs, heavy breakdowns and scathing vocals. The band’s aesthetic and political impulses have always been punk and like anyone embroiled in the subculture Thou have been exploring what it means to exist within and without a rigid morality. That exploration takes thematic center on Umbilical and their self-assessment is as harsh as that of the world around them.

Thou share their seething lead single and album centerpiece, “I Feel Nothing When You Cry.” Quote?
Umbilical is Thou's first full-length release of original music since their 2018 Sacred Bones debut Magus, and 2020 collaborative split with Emma Ruth Rundle, May Our Chambers By Full. 
Umbilical will be released across all digital platforms and available in stores May 31 via Sacred Bones.
All vinyl editions come with a black 7” featuring the tracks "I Feel Nothing When You Cry” and "Unbidden Guest”, which are also available on CD and digital products.

Umbilical album cover

UMBILICAL DIGITAL + CD TRACK LISTING:

1  - NARCISSIST'S PRAYER

2 - EMOTIONAL TERRORIST

3 - LONELY VIGIL

4 - HOUSE OF IDEAS

5 - I FEEL NOTHING WHEN YOU CRY

6 - UNBIDDEN GUEST

7 - I RETURNED AS CHAINED AND BOUND TO YOU

8 - THE PROMISE

9 - PANIC STRICKEN, I FLEE

10 - SIEGE PERILOUS

UMBILICAL PHYSICAL TRACK LIST:

LP SIDE A

1 - NARCISSIST'S PRAYER

2 - EMOTIONAL TERRORIST

3 - LONELY VIGIL

4 - HOUSE OF IDEAS

LP SIDE B

5 - I RETURN AS CHAINED AND BOUND TO YOU

6 - THE PROMISE

7 - PANIC STRICKEN, I FLEE

8 - SIEGE PERILOUS

7" TRACKS

1 - I FEEL NOTHING WHEN YOU CRY

2 - UNBIDDEN GUEST

Even voorstellen - John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davis - Lost themes IV: noir

03/05 (sacred bones/konkurrent)

JOHN CARPENTER, CODY CARPENTER & DANIEL DAVIES
- Announces ‘Lost Themes IV: Noir’
- Out 3rd of May on Sacred Bones
- March 2024 single & video “My Name Is Death"“my name is death” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBnBdNyYiM
- April 2024 single & video “he walks by night” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRphPPz5i9U
- Starring Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood), Staz Lindes (The Paranoyds) and Misha Lindes (SadGirl)

John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies announce details of forthcoming album ‘Lost Themes IV: Noir’, set for release on the 3rd of May. Along with the announcement, they share a first single from the collection, “My Name Is Death”, and accompanying video starring Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood), Staz Lindes (The Paranoyds) and Misha Lindes (SadGirl).

It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become 'Lost Themes', his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. In the years since, Carpenter, Carpenter, and Davies have released close to a dozen musical projects, including a growing library of studio albums and the scores for David Gordon Green’s trilogy of Halloween reboots. With 'Lost Themes IV: Noir', they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Sandy [King, John’s wife and producer] had given John a book for Christmas, of pictures from noir films, all stills from that era,” Davies says of the lightbulb moment for Lost Themes IV. “I was looking through it, and I thought, ‘I like that imagery, and what those titles make me think of. What if we loosely based it around that? What if the titles were of some of John’s favorite noir films?’”

From that seed, the music the trio was working on began to shape itself into an album. Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs.

The lead single and scene-setting album opener “My Name Is Death”, shared online today, feels like new territory for Carpenter. A driving, almost punkish bassline initiates the action, before being joined by washes of atmospheric synth, pulsing drum machine, and, at the song’s climax, a smoldering guitar solo. If the goal of the Lost Themes project is to create music that’s as cinematic as anything we can picture in our heads, “My Name Is Death” might be the group’s most successful effort yet.

The accompanying video, starring Carpenter, Carpenter and Davies alongside Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood), Staz Lindes (The Paranoyds) and Misha Lindes (SadGirl) is a miniature noir movie in itself, directed by Ambar Navarro. John Carpenter comments: "Noir is a uniquely American genre born in post-war cinema. We grew up loving Noir and were influenced by it for this new album. The video celebrates this style and our new song, My Name is Death."

Watch “My Name Is Death” here: https://youtu.be/TDBnBdNyYiM?si=O4c9hPqEk4-o-p5G

Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes the songs on Lost Themes IV “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it. “Some of the music is heavy guitar riffs, which is not in old noir films,” Davies notes. “But somehow, it’s connected in an emotional way.”

A recurring theme in talking about the Lost Themes IV process was how easy, intuitive, and natural it felt. That’s owing not just to the decade that this trio has been recording music for public consumption. Their collaboration dates all the way back to the younger Carpenter and Davies’ childhood. The two of them jammed constantly, and they cut their teeth in high-school rock bands together. (“I just listened and appreciated,” John says.) It helped that they grew up in a musical environment. Daniel’s dad is the Kinks’ Dave Davies, and he would pop by the L.A. studio – the same one the Lost Themes records are made in today – to jam, or to perform at wrap parties for John’s films. Steve Buscemi was an occasional guest drummer, and on one memorable night, Hammer Horror composer James Bernard stopped by to show the youngsters how he wrote his Dracula themes.

“We were always watching movies and talking about music,” Davies says of his and Cody’s shared childhood. “How does music work in movies? Why is a movie scary? What is that movie about? What is the underlying theme? We were always talking about that kind of stuff, all the time.”

By the time they got together to make the first Lost Themes, the Carpenters and Davies were, at least informally, decades deep into their collaboration. That album helped formalize a way of working that has largely gone unchanged 10 years later. “It’s always been pretty much the same,” John says. “We all jump in. We all have ideas. Sometimes the ideas don’t work. Sometimes they do. But it’s a democracy, in that sense. It’s a sense of, ‘Oh, I don’t like that. Let’s do it again.’ We usually police ourselves. We usually decide whether our performances are no good. And then we just do it.”

“We’re all bringing something different,” Davies adds. “I think you’ve got to let that person express that idea, and then, if it’s not working, then we all kind of know it’s not working. But it’s really rare that that even happens.”

That kind of free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.

“This is who we are, I think,” John summarizes. “Daniel’s the adventurer. He pushes for new sounds, new directions. He tries things that I haven’t thought of. He’s a lot more daring than I am, and he enriches the whole thing. Cody’s the musician. He’s a savant at music. He understands music. We depend on him to rescue us.”

And what about John’s contribution? With characteristic understatement, he concludes: “I’m the experience. I’ve done music for movies before.”

‘Lost Themes IV: Noir’ track list:

1. My Name is Death - official video
2. Machine Fear
3. Last Rites
4. The Burning Door
5. He Walks By Night
6. Beyond The Gallows
7. Kiss The Blood Off My Fingers
8. Guillotine
9. The Demon’s Shadow
10. Shadows Have A Thousand Eyes

Roots & Roses festival 2024, 1 mai 2024, Lessines – 13^e édition
ROOTS & ROSES FESTIVAL 2024 le 1er MAI à LESSINES 13ème ÉDITION

Le rendez -vous des amoureux de folk, de blues, de rock'n'roll et de garage,version moderne.
2 SCENES , 2 STYLES
https://www.rootsandroses.be/

Video teaser : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRhAC4FDkA

Le Roots & Roses festival, rendez-vous incontournable des amoureux des formes modernes de folk, blues, rock'n'roll et garage, se tiendra 1er mai 2023 à Lessines (BE), dans la province du Hainaut, à 60 km de Lille, sous un chapiteau dans un cadre verdoyant. Grâce à ses 2 scènes, la programmation explore les tendances rock actuelles et innovantes (scène "Roses") ainsi que les formes plus traditionnelles comme le blues, le folk, l'americana ou la soul (scène "Roots").

Pour sa 13ème édition, le Roots & Roses reste fidèle à ses valeurs même si il s'agit d'une année de transition. Située à la lisière de la Flandre, la ville de Lessinnes met un point d'honneur à réunir dans son festival des artistes des deux côtés de la frontière linguistique et à participer au développement de la scène belge aussi bien qu'à programmer des artistes reconnus sur un plan international.

Mention spéciale pour la restauration belge et internationale, avec une carte unique, ainsi qu'un bel éventail de bières et une priorité pour les produits locaux et l'écoresponsabilité. A noter la présence également de disquaires sans oublier les séances de dédicaces au stand merchandising ou les festivaliers peuvent rencontrer les artistes. Organisé par le Centre culturel René Magritte, le Roots & Roses retentit comme un moment de fête et de rencontre authentiques entre publics, bénévoles, organisateurs, partenaires et artistes !