Thank

Thank formed in 2016 out of Leeds notorious DIY collective CHUNK, and over the next half-decade they gained acclaim for the EPs Sexghost Hellscape and Please, toured in mainland Europe, and caught the attention of heavy hitters like Idles with their combination of anxious disco grooves and harsh noise freakouts.

The band's debut full length Thoughtless Cruelty was released via Box Records (Lower Slaughter, USA Nails, Psychic Graveyard) and Exploding In Sound (Pile, Big Ups, Krill) in February 2022. The album is a stark observation of human cruelty filtered through the band's grim fascinations including long term nuclear warnings, CNN's Turner Doomsday Video (opener 'From Heaven' is a partial reworking of the Latin verse from 'Nearer My God To Thee', the hymn performed in that video), and the business-as-usual liberal politics which has given way to the global rise of the far right.

The initial run of Thoughtless Cruelty sold out almost immediately, in part due to the single Dread being championed by Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 Music and John Kennedy on Radio X.