The Body, The Blood, The Machine (CD)
With a wider, brighter, and wilder sound than anything they've done in the past, this record adds walls of guitars, organs, and even a few "ballads" (a.k.a. slightly pretty songs) to the mix, while still retaining the gritty post-pop-punk sound for which they're globally famous. Recorded in the band's hometown of Portland, OR by Fugazi's Brendan Canty.
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | |
| 1 | Here's Your Future |
| 2 | I Might Need to Kill You |
| 3 | An Ear For Baby |
| 4 | A Pillar of Salt |
| 5 | Returning to the Fold |
| 6 | Test Pattern |
| 7 | St. Rosa and the Swallows |
| 8 | Back to the Sea |
| 9 | Power Doesn't Run on Nothing |
| 10 | I Hold the Sound |
| Adam Dunn
- Portland, OR, USA |
| The Thermals pretty much define the Portland garage-punk sound. There first two releases were fairly lo-fi, but with this latest release, they finally get some flashy production value. This is a great record especially if you can follow its "escape from a post-apocalyptic Christian fascist state" story. | |