Thus Love: All Pleasure (Coloured Vinyl LP)

Stimulation is easy to come by these days. Streaming platforms and social media offer us endless fleeting moments of diversion that keep what we call the “pleasure zones” of our brains lit up morning till night. But for such a supposedly hedonistic time, real pleasure—the kind that feeds our soul rather than draining it, that makes us feel good instead of just distracting us from the fact that we feel bad—is in shockingly short supply.

The second LP by Brattleboro, Vermont’s Thus Love is full of that kind of nourishing euphoria. It 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.

Silver vinyl version.

1. On The Floor
   
2. Birthday Song
   
3. Get Stable
   
4. All Pleasure
   
5. Face To Face
   
6. Lost In Translation
   
7. Show Me Patience
   
8. House On A Hill
   
9. Bread For Blood
   
10. Losing A Friend