Vermont breakthrough post-punk outfit THUS LOVE release their sophomore album, All Pleasure, featuring our focus track 'Get Stable'.
Mixed by Matthew Hall and Rich Costey (on ‘Birthday Song’, ‘All Pleasure’, and ‘Get Stable’) and mastered by Bob Weston, All Pleasure was recorded as live as possible, with a bare minimum of overdubs, capturing the sheer infectious ecstasy that comes from a group of people sharing space together, making a divine racket.
The album came out of a period of dizzying growth and transformation for the Brattleboro group. When they began work on it, vocalist/guitarist Echo Mars (they/them) and drummer Lu Racine (he/him) were still reeling from the runaway success of their 2022 debut full-length, Memorial—a set of lush, elegant post-punk that brought praise from The FADER, NME, and The Guardian, plus a leap from quiet Brattleboro to stages across the US and UK—along with processing the departure of founding bassist Nathaniel van Osdol. Meanwhile, new bassist Ally Juleen (she/they) and guitarist/keyboardist Shane Blank (he/him), longtime musical partners, had uprooted their lives to relocate to small-town Vermont and join a band that was a month away from recording the follow-up to a cultishly adored album.
Listen to ‘Get Stable’ on F1 Tracks.
The second LP by Brattleboro, Vermont’s THUS LOVE swoons, shakes, and swaggers with a combination of grit and sensuality that’s been hard to locate in music lately. It fills your brain with barbed melodic hooks that once they sink in don’t budge. It punches at the clouds and makes you want to do the same. It’s called, fittingly, All Pleasure.
“We were all coming together to make this new thing and take a new step,” Mars says. “We’ve all been making music for a while, and we’ve all been confronted with aspects of it that are grueling and not pleasurable.” When the group convened in a barn in the woods that Mars had transformed into a recording studio the band calls their “Hobbit Hole,” they kept one simple rule at the forefront: “If it’s not joyful,” says Mars, “don’t do it.”
What emerged from that simple mission is a stunningly gorgeous album, full of big, arcing melodies and a whole range of kinky stylistic twists that will surprise listeners who know the group just for their first album’s chorus-drenched ‘80s-style psychedelia.
THUS LOVE played overseas for a run of UK festival dates over the summer, wowing audiences at Reading & Leeds and End Of The Road, and are about to perform in Vermont and NYC to celebrate the album’s release in early November, ahead of 2025 Tour Dates, including a run supporting The Vaccines that kicks-off in mid-January, some headline shows, and additional March/April EU/UK shows.
