and oh yes, i think i’ve finally found my new band to really like for this year. see, every year i like to get into one new band that i can say i really really like, and so far this year i hadn’t heard any album to convince me to adopt its creators into that list. mostly just stuff that was decent to good.

however, when we saw the thermals open for cursive a couple weeks ago i was really pleasantly surprised at how much i liked them, considering i almost never hear an opening band that’s a pleasant surprise and not just an hour to be endured on the way to much better music. so this week i finally got around to grabbing their latest album the body the blood the machine and it’s pretty great. i haven’t listened to a band this punky in a while and it feels good. i’m especially obsessed with the single ‘a pillar of salt‘, because that guitar lick running throughout is HOT i tell ya. anyway, check out some pay day song action and get it lodged in your brain like i have.