Slow Crush Announce New Album 'Thirst': Hear The Title Track

Slow Crush smother with an abrasive escapism on 'Thirst'

Sometimes a song isn’t so much a song as it is a confrontation, and within that confrontation is a chance to escape, if only for a moment, the blackened malaise of life. Providing the type of portal we need the most right now is Slow Crush, the Belgian shoegaze and noise-pop dynamo who this week (May 13) unleashes a strategic fit of calculated chaos called “Thirst.” It’s the unrelenting title track to the foursome’s new album out August 29 via P…

Slow Crush announce new album Thirst, release title-track

Listen to Slow Crush’s new single Thirst, which is about “an unquenchable desire for what’s next, with focus on essence and balance”.

Slow Crush Announce New Album 'Thirst': Hear The Title Track

The gauzy pedal mashers Slow Crush come from the quaint little Belgian city of Leuven, and they started been making heavy shoegaze long before heavy shoegaze became a cool thing. Slow Crush impressed us with their 2018 debut album Aurora. Since then, they’ve released the 2021 follow-up Hush and signed with Pure Noise, and now they’re getting ready to tour North America and to release Thirst, their third album.