The Thermals

Over the course of seven years and four LP’s, The Thermals have tackled a variety of subjects with no small amount of passion and fervor. Religion, politics, death, these are some heavy themes! Yet The Thermals have irreverently run roughshod over these topics with excesses of moxie and gusto, the likes of which the post/punk/pop/power/etc. community had never before seen! Now, for their fifth LP, The Thermals have battled (and perhaps even conquered!) the deepest and darkest of all popular art themes- love. Not that The Thermals haven’t sung/spoken/screamed about love before. Every Thermals LP has at least two or three songs that provide a short respite from whatever paranoid chaos is going on to deal with love, and the wide range of emotions it produces and abuses. But never before have The Thermals devoted an entire LP to love, loss, and… lies! That’s right, you can’t have a little love without a lot of loss and lies. More than an album strictly about love, Personal Life is about relationships. It’s about the concept of a connection between two people – making it, breaking it, and faking it. The first three songs on Personal Life speak to the listener using the ... more...