Sometimes a song isn’t so much a song as it is a confrontation, and within that confrontation is a chance to escape, if only for a moment, the blackened malaise of life. Providing the type of portal we need the most right now is Slow Crush, the Belgian shoegaze and noise-pop dynamo who this week (May 13) unleashes a strategic fit of calculated chaos called “Thirst.”
It’s the unrelenting title track to the foursome’s new album out August 29 via Pure Noise Records, just ahead of a North American tour that delivers them to The Sinclair in Cambridge on September 6.
Speaking on the heaviness of “Thirst,” the single, both sonically and thematically, Slow Crush offer up the following: “‘Thirst’ is about an unquenchable desire for what’s next, with focus on essence and balance. Not losing yourself in the ever-growing distractions that surround us. A yearning pulse for renewal, ‘Thirst’ ripples with a craving for something pure, something vital. It churns with an unrelenting drive, building an electrifying momentum that surges forward and breaks through, offering both release and rebirth.”
Plug this into your human mainframe and allow it to flush out the unwanted noise.