Thirsty Curses: To the Ends of the Earth
Thirsty Curses has just released its fourth studio album, To The Ends of the Earth. The Raleigh, N.C.-based Thirsty Curses are the spiritual heirs to the drunken, sardonic and masterful songcraft of bands such as The Replacements, Violent Femmes, and Deer Tick. On their newest album, To The Ends of the Earth, Thirsty Curses bounces between numerous rock subgenres, as the band showcases its most sophisticated hooks to date.
In the lead up to the album, Thirsty Curses released singles "Nothing Really Matters”, "Jenny", "Whistlepig", and "Down & Out". The music video/lead single from the new album, "Nothing Really Matters”, serves as a microcosm of Thirsty Curses’ sonic diversity, as it mashes up the delicate album opener “One of These Days” with the hardcore punk penultimate track “Nothing Really Matters”. The rest of the songs on To The Ends of the Earth fall somewhere between these two extremes ranging from power pop (“Your Next Move” and “Calmer Waters”), to alt-country (“What the Hell?” and “Tell Me the Truth”); grunge/punk (“Whistlepig” and “Are You Still There?”) to lounge/r&b (“Down & Out”).
Thirsty Curses recorded most of the album at their home studio in Raleigh, NC over the summer of 2021 (between short tour runs), while also spending a day in Bias Studios in Northern Virginia, where they recorded three songs for the album as well as piano overdubs on the studio's baby grand. The album was engineered by Wilson Getchell and Mark Reiter; mixed and mastered by Benjamin Jenkerson.
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