“Joan of Arc” by Thrushes , from the forthcoming album Exposing Seas.
Thrushes are a noise pop/shoegaze quartet from Baltimore. They put out two gloriously noisy records –2006’s Come Undone, and 2010’s underated Night Falls— before taking a long hiatus. During the hiatus, the members of the band did things like get married, have kids, focus on day jobs,
At some point in 2011, the band’s website and the site for their microlabel both went dark. Aside from the occasional mention of some shows they played in the Baltimore area, their social media sites were pretty quiet. I kind of assumed that they had called it quits. About a year ago, they started to whisper about a new album, and the details have very slowly started to emerge. In May, we learned that the band had signed to the Tampa-based label New Granada Records. In the last few weeks, the band offered a couple of song teasers via their facebook page, and they offered the name of the new album, but I didn’t know the release date until today.
The Fat Angel Sings 