Thus Love | All Pleasure | Clear Vinyl LP | Rough Trade Exclusive

Albums of the Year 2024 - Number 62 In the age of streaming platforms and social media, stimulation is easy to come by. Real pleasure, however\u2014the kind that feeds our soul rather than draining it\u2014is in shockingly short supply. The second LP by Thus Love is full of that kind of nourishing euphoria. It swoons, shakes, and swaggers with a combination of grit and sensuality that\u2019s been hard to locate in music lately. It\u2019s called, fittingly, All Pleasure. The album came out of a period of dizzying growth and transformation for the group. When they began work on it, vocalist/guitarist Echo Mars and drummer Lu Racine were still reeling from the runaway success of their 2022 debut Memorial\u2014a set of lush, elegant post-punk that brought praise from The Fader, the NME, and the Guardian\u2014along with processing the departure of the founding bassist. With All Pleasure, the band re-formed with new bassist Ally Juleen and guitarist/keyboardist Shane Blank. The.