The Body, The Blood, The Machine by The ThermalsMy rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
Great album with a great punk sound. Lots of religious themes running through their songs like "A Pillar of Salt" and "Returning to the Fold". It turns out that the "album tells the story of a young couple who must flee a United States governed by fascist faux-Christians" according to the band's web site. "Returning to the Fold" was the first Thermals track I ever heard, and I immediately fell in love with it and went to getting every album I could find with their name on it.
It's a highly expressive album without over-sentimentality. You have this fun sound juxtaposed with intensely emotional lyrics. I find that to be a different kind of marriage, and one that works wonderfully.
Track listing:
1. Here's Your Future
2. I Might Need You to Kill
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
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