Heart of Grime

John Thill was born in Riverside, CA: land of heat, drugs, and stately grime. For six years he lived in gritty neighborhoods therein. Heart of Grime is an autopsy of that city and a record about the very ground falling out from under one's feet, about coming home to a place that no longer makes sense. Thill wrote and recorded the album in a motor home outside his parents' house in Riverside County after making an unscheduled return to California from the Southeast with his tail between his legs. Informed by a divorce, losing friends to drugs and watching his hometown's rents rise and people leave, the album oscillates between harsh slabs of distortion and sparkling sound.