Thou announce new album, Umbilical

Thou have announced a new album. On May 31, the Louisiana metal group will release Umbilical via Sacred Bones. It follows a pair of recent collaborative records with Mizmor and Emma Ruth Rundle, and today they’ve shared the first single, “I Feel Nothing When You Cry.” Hear it below.

The group said in a statement, in part, “This record is for the radicals, the crackpots, the exiles who have escaped the wasteland of capitulation. This record is for the militants and zealots refusing to surrender to comforts, to practicalities, to thirty pieces of silver. And this record is most especially for the weaklings and malingerers, burdened by capricious indulgence, hunched by the deep wounds of compromise, shuffling in limp approximation, desperately reaching back towards integrity and conviction.”

Thou’s last non-collaborative studio album was 2018’s Magus. Read our Greatest Hits feature with the band.

Thou Umbilical tracklist:

1 – Narcissist’s Prayer
2 – Emotional Terrorist
3 – Lonely Vigil
4 – House of Ideas
5 – I Feel Nothing When You Cry
6 – Unbidden Guest
7 – I Return as Chained and Bound to You
8 – The Promise
9 – Panic Stricken, I Flee
10 – Siege Perilous

Thou tour dates:

Apr 13: New Orleans, LA – Palestine Benefit at Fred Hampton Free Store
May 4: Providence, RI – AS220
Jul 28: New Orleans, LA – The Broadside (w/ The Body + Dis Fig and Nail Club)
Sep 13-15: Richmond, VA – Persistent Vision Fest
Aug 14: The Zoo – Brisbane, AU *
Aug 15: Mary’s Underground – Sydney, AU *
Aug 16: The Baso – Canberra, AU *
Aug 17: Stay Gold – Melbourne, AU *
Aug 18: Crown & Anchor – Adelaide, AU *
Aug 23: Rolling Stone – Christchurch, NZ *
Aug 24: Meow – Wellington, NZ *
Aug 25: Galatos – Auckland, NZ *

* w/ Full of Hell