{"id":9786,"date":"2013-05-08T10:08:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9786"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:08:57","slug":"the-thermals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/the-thermals\/","title":{"rendered":"THE THERMALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9787\" alt=\"The-Thermals-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The-Thermals-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The-Thermals-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The-Thermals-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>THE THERMALS<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Signed and Sealed in Blood<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Domino]<\/p>\n<p>The sixth album from this Portland pop-punk trio sees a return to the kinds of scratchy vocals and trebly guitar strains heard in its earlier work. Freshly signed to Saddle Creek, the band wastes little time getting down to business. \u201cBorn to Kill\u201d opens with Hutch Harris simultaneously striking his first guitar note and declaring, \u201cI was born to kill \/ I was made to slay \/ unafraid to spill blood on the land.\u201d \u201cFaces Stay With Me\u201d kicks in with the same urgency, and the majority of the album\u2019s 10 songs clock in well under three minutes. All carry similar themes\u2014fighting, fearlessness, solitude and violence\u2014and the Thermals drill home these ideas with unquestionable conviction and hammering, cymbal-heavy beats. On tracks such as \u201cWhere I Stand,\u201d Kathy Foster\u2019s fast-finger basslines add bonus force, and even amid discordant sounds and dark\u2014at times even desperate\u2014lyrics, this punchy album takes its share of uplifting turns. \u2013Shauna Farnell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE THERMALS Signed and Sealed in Blood [Domino] The sixth album from this Portland pop-punk trio sees a return to the kinds of scratchy vocals and trebly guitar strains heard in its earlier work. Freshly signed to Saddle Creek, the band wastes little time getting down to business. \u201cBorn to Kill\u201d opens with Hutch Harris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,167,6467,6426,6515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9789,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions\/9789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}