Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Sludge is a heavy-metal sub-genre that does exactly what it says on the tin. Riffs thrash in a thick force field of electric distortion. Drums swing hard and low. Basslines churn like guts. Vocals roar within the mix like the ravings of a trapped and unintelligible soul. Thou’s Umbilical is an imposing example of the style.Hailing from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the band are sludge veterans. Their first album, Tyrant, came out in 2007. It has been followed by others mired in one-word titles: Peasant, Heathen and so on. But the six-piece are less atavistic than all this murk and medievalism might suggest. In 2020, they teamed with gothic singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle for a well-received collision of genres in May Our Chambers Be Full. That year they also released an album of Nirvana covers, mapping points of contact between grunge and sludge.Umbilical arrives with furrowed talk of discontent and self-recrimination. The band’s frontman Bryan Funck — aptly named, for his harsh rasp indicates the bluest funk — has spoken of his disdain for the “Neanderthals” drawn to their extreme sound at live shows, an echo of Kurt Cobain’s abhorrence for the jocks who attached themselves to Nirvana. Presumably the best way to ditch the knuckle-draggers would be to make an album of nice folk-pop songs about mindfulness. But instead, Thou have gone to back to basics.In “Narcissist’s Prayer”, Funck hisses about “compromised ideals” amid a well-marshalled assault of guitars and drumming. “House of Ideas” moves back and forth between the flaying intensity of doom metal and the cement-mixer ferment of sludge. A knockout shift in gear at the end is the heavy-music equivalent of the big key change in a pop song.“Unbidden Guest” finds guitarists Andy Gibbs, Matthew Thudium and KC Stafford playing a knockout maelstrom of riffs, which seem to blur into a vast whole. Meanwhile, drummer Tyler Coburn lifts the music from formlessness with resonant cymbal work and powerhouse percussion, aided by bassist Mitch Wells. Final song “Siege Perilous” has a Black Sabbath groove, as though delving into the primeval ooze from which sludge emerged.★★★★☆‘Umbilical’ is released by Sacred Bones
rewrite this title in Arabic Thou: Umbilical album review — masters of sludge go back to basics
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