Brattleboro (in the US East Coast state of Vermont) is not one of the places that left a memorable mark on the map of the Rock. For the three musicians from Thus Love, however, the 12,000-inhabitant town offered the space to find themselves in a community and to build up a very intensive connection to each other as dance artists. Since the formation of the band, Echo Mars (guitar, cello, vocals), Lu Racine (drums) and Nathaniel van Osdol (synthesizer) have lived together under one roof to avoid, preferring to play when the neighbors were out.
They called their debut MEMORIAL, and even if this album doesn’t protect monuments, then it can be seen as an amplifier for the voices of those who are perceived elsewhere as different and not belonging. An emotional act that manifests itself in Thus Love’s songs that testify to vulnerability and the will to fight, that tell of grief and promise a piece of healing. The ten contributions on the debut take a quasi-new-wave position, today that’s called post-punk to be safe. Vocalist Echo Mars is at times reminiscent of Psychedelic Furs’ Richard Butler, and the guitars ripping through the three, four and five minute tracks teach the British wavers intense wobbling.
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