meet the strangest team-up of 2020

Iouisiana’s Thou write feral sludge metal, while Kentucky singersongwriter Emma Ruth Rundle creates emotionally bruised postrock. Between their music lies an abundance of subgenres, yet they have somehow brought their styles together for a brilliant new album, May Our Chambers Be Full.

It might seem like two worlds colliding, but they’ve been playing on the same circuit for years. “I became very obsessed with Thou in 2015 – and I feel like there was a mutual awareness,” Emma explains. Around the same time, Thou guitarist Andy Gibbs was working in a kitchen in Berkeley, California when a colleague put on Emma’s instrumental album, Three years later, he met her when they both played at