Thermals
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Yes, the ramshackle clatter of previous albums from this Portland trio has been replaced by a more considered approach that highlights Kathy Foster’s ...

Until (fairly) recently Seattle trio The Thermals were on the city’s legendary Subpop label. In Fuckin’ A they made one of the 00s most exciting seari...

The logical story of the new Thermals album would be: The band have “grown up”, shifted their focus from themes like death and religion to love, and a...

It's amazing, really, how the Thermals have managed to pick apart a series of vast and complicated themes – religion, death and now, with their fifth ...

Portland-based indie loyalists The Thermals don’t sport their ideologies on their sleeves, exactly, but may have worn them as temporary tattoos in the...

Evolution is a painfully slow process, only noticeable under close examination. Charles Darwin was slightly more interested in fossils than bands, but...

What made early The Thermals records such good fun was the way the Portland trio hurtled through their songs, racing themselves to the finish as if th...

Over four fine albums, Portland's whipsmart pop-punks have tackled religion, politics, family and other high concepts; their fifth is all about love, ...

With their tinny, post-punk guitars and fragmented lyrical critiques of bible-belt America, Oregon three-piece The Thermals openly acknowledge their i...

Buy at iTunesMy knowledge of the Thermals is, admittedly, rudimentary, selecting them for review on the basis of their kind-of-recognizable name alone...