Fuckin A by Thermals

Fuckin A, the second album from Portland, Oregon's The Thermals, came out on Sub Pop on May 18, 2004, sandwiched between More Parts per Million and The Body, the Blood, the Machine. Hutch Harris and Kathy Foster had founded the band only a couple of years earlier, and their sound was still built from lo-fi scrappiness and plain old rock, all buzzsaw guitars and shouted hooks with a head full of politics and religion.

"How We Know" gives a taste of the rush. The album had an odd afterlife, too. A planned single, "God and Country", with "Goddamn the Light" on the flip, was meant to promote both this record and the live album Live @ the Echoplex: December 7th, 2007, before it was scrapped; only a rare promo pressing survives.

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