Listening to Colic tonight by Then Thickens. Very solid album, although not as great as their debut album. The frontman is Jon-Lee Martin, who some may know from the Manchester post-hardcore/noise rock band Kong (not to be confused with the much more popular Dutch band of the same name), although the brash and loud sound of Kong could not be any further from the sound of Then Thickens, which is more influenced by 90's jangly indie bands.
p.s. The last track of this album has some evocative and very specific lyrics. Did some searching on the internet and learned the song is about Jon-Lee attending the CMJ music festival in Manhattan in 2003 when he encountered a shrieking and crying woman who said she had just been told a good friend of hers died from multiple stab wounds in the chest. He later learned that the woman was Mary-Lou Lord, and the man who died was Elliott Smith. Jon-Lee said he's been haunted by that incident ever since.
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