Thermals: More Parts Per Million on CD
More Parts Per Million
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Sub Pop
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2002
- Item number:
- 8475486
- UPC/EAN:
- 0098787062229
- Release date:
- 19.6.2003
THE THERMALS from Portland, Oregon, were created in spring 2002 by singer Hutch Harris in his kitchen, by summer THE THERMALS were a rock band in the flesh. In October they signed a three record deal with Sub Pop. Their debut was recorded at home by Harris on a four-track cassette recorder with Chris Walla (DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE) mixing the recordings in Seattle, Wahington. The result is "no-fi" glory. Distorted guitars, distorted drums, distorted bass, distorted vocals all collide into perfect, distorted pop songs. Imagine combining the best of the "grunge" bands with some of the lo-fi geniuses who've worked with Sub Pop, like Lou Barlow and Mark Arm recording a record toether in the basement. This work of pure genius pays absolutely no heed to generally accepted principles of sound recording. Infact, "More Parts Per million" may force the listener to decide for him or herself what makes a record "listenable", "unlistenable", or "very fucking listenable".
Reviews
J. Hentschel in Rolling Stone 5/03: "Cool und vorschüler- haft melodieverliebt, zugleich tobend aggressiv, The Strokes im Schleudergang. 27 Minuten, 13 A-Seiten in keil- förmigem Super-Lo-Fi."Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 It's Trivia
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2 Brace And Break
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3 No Culture Icons
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4 Goddamn The Light
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5 Out Of the Old And Thin
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6 I Know The Pattern
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7 Time To Lose
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8 My Little Machine
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9 Overgrown, Overblown!
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10 A Passing Feeling
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11 Back To Gray
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12 Born Dead
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13 An Endless Supply
