{"id":1263085,"date":"2025-04-04T11:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1263085"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:26:29","slug":"thornhill-break-down-new-album-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/thornhill-break-down-new-album-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornhill Break Down New Album \u2018BODIES\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Australian metalcore favourites Thornhill<\/a> have released their third studio album, BODIES<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The album is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to 2022\u2019s Heroine<\/em>, which reached No. 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart.<\/p>\n

BODIES<\/em> is billed as a release thriving on \u201cspontaneity and freedom\u201d and offering \u201can unbridled explosion of raw vulnerability fused with some of the band\u2019s heaviest moments to date.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBODIES<\/em> marks a bold evolution in our ever-developing sound,\u201d the band explain. \u201cHeroine<\/em> was defined by its meticulously crafted and tightly woven concept, but the weight of this careful construction sometimes overshadowed the energy of the music itself, leaving some listeners feeling disconnected.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith BODIES<\/em>, we have embraced a more immediate, unfiltered approach that feels like a lightning bolt, looking to capture the energy of Thornhill right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

To celebrate the release, Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em> sat down with vocalist Jacob Charlton and guitarist Ethan McCann to talk all about it.<\/p>\n

Thornhill\u2019s BODIES<\/a> is out now via UNFD.<\/em><\/p>\n

BODIES<\/em> Track by Track:<\/h2>\n

1. \u201cDIESEL\u201d<\/h3>\n

Jacob Charlton: \u201cDIESEL\u201d was a one take really, wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Ethan McCann: Pretty much a one take. It was a riff and a little sample, and that was all it was until we started recording in [Ben] Maida\u2019s living room. We had done the first couple of tracks, we\u2019d finished the first iteration of \u201cunder the knife\u201d, and the first iteration of \u201cRevolver\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was around 2am, and it was just Jacob, myself and Sammy B [Sam Bassal], our producer, up late, massively overcooked from trying to write the whole day \u2013 and Maida was asleep on the couch behind us, missing the whole thing. We just stuck this weird chorus onto what we had, then we were like, \u201cWhere do we go from here without it being too fancy, but still keeping it interesting?\u201d<\/p>\n

Then we flipped the riff around, repeated it, and we cut it off with this super short and sweet song. We\u2019ve never really done that before, but we all really loved it. It was our favourite song for a little while, our collective favourite song. It was just so much fun to write. It was so random, and it was just so quick and to the point \u2013 we\u2019ve never been about that before. It\u2019s always been this sort of extravagant storytelling melodic masterpiece sort of thing. But with \u201cDIESEL\u201d, this was just quick and dirty.<\/p>\n

2. \u201cRevolver\u201d<\/h3>\n

Jacob: This one\u2019s a metalcore song, and it was a very, very old demo from [2022 album] Heroine<\/em> days, the transition period. I was always against it, but the boys absolutely loved the breakdown and the beat, and I know Maids and Cage were pushing Ethan to do it. They were like, \u201cYou need to make this a song, you need to make this a song!\u201d And then he did. And they loved it. But then Ethan didn\u2019t like it, and I didn\u2019t like it \u2013 but we did know it was good. So, we had to finish it!<\/p>\n

We had an idea for it, and we laid it all out for Sammy, and he loved it. We just couldn\u2019t like it for a long time, it was like \u201ceat your fucking vegetables\u201d finishing that song. It was such a long and drawn-out process of us changing such minute bullshit that did not matter, like a chord progression for the chorus to make it feel different; but it wouldn\u2019t really change anything. We knew that we had a good chorus anyway, but it just still wasn\u2019t right. But I\u2019m pretty happy with where we got it. I think the blood, sweat and tears of trying to shape that into what it became was worth it. It was probably the hardest song to finish.<\/p>\n

3. \u201cSilver Swarm\u201d<\/h3>\n

Jacob: \u201cSilver Swarm\u201d is old \u201cValentine\u201d. It\u2019s the first iteration of \u201cValentine\u201d from Heroine<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n

Ethan: Oh, of course! I forgot how that happened. Initially when we were writing, we thought about doing this because the \u201cValentine\u201d that is on Heroine<\/em> is a very different song than what it first started out as. It ended up being a sort of lo-fi rendition of it. It was initially a full song, a full band with instruments and everything. There was a lot of gold in that track, and a lot of things that we really liked about it\u2026 but we just couldn\u2019t get it over the line for Heroine<\/em>. And we wanted to come back to it and reshape it to maybe put it on this album.<\/p>\n

Jacob: Yeah, give it the love.<\/p>\n

Ethan: But again, we just couldn\u2019t really crack it. Jacob\u2019s chorus was always really, really solid, and we fucked around with different versions of the chorus, playing with synths as opposed to chords and just trying to show it in a different light so we could take it somewhere.<\/p>\n

Jacob: Oh true, it was an old demo!<\/p>\n

Ethan: Yeah, and it ended up being this synth chorus. And for us it was like, \u201cThis chorus is one of the sickest choruses we have, we just don\u2019t know what to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacob: And it had a hard tempo.<\/p>\n

Ethan: Yeah, it was a hard tempo for a long time. Then on one of the last days of recording, I was listening to Spotify on the way to Maida\u2019s, and I heard a similar beat. I think it was Fontaines D.C., the title track to Skinty Fia<\/em>, and the beat just clicked something in my head. So I just put a dumb riff over it, then we stuck the chorus on \u2013 and that was the whole song!<\/p>\n

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4. \u201cOnly Ever You\u201d<\/h3>\n

Jacob: \u201cOnly Ever You\u201d was also an old demo.<\/p>\n

Ethan: That was two different demos!<\/p>\n

Jacob: Yes, two old demos. I think the chorus also came from the transition period between [2019 debut album] The Dark Pool<\/em> to Heroine<\/em>, that kind of vibe. We had that chorus for a while, and I was bugging Ethan to make that something because I always loved it \u2013 but I didn\u2019t know why. It was one of those ones where it was just an idea and we were like, \u201cOkay, it\u2019s fine.\u201d It just never made it anywhere else. But it stuck with me for years. And I feel like if you\u2019re not sick of something for that amount of time, it\u2019s time for that idea.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like that Rick Rubin saying, you\u2019re an antennae to the universe in a sense. And if you\u2019re not going to pursue an idea, it\u2019s going to find its person or it\u2019s going to find its outlet through somebody else. And I guess that was one of our own that we weren\u2019t ready for. But once we had all of the pieces to that puzzle, it just kind of blew out. I think the structure of that one was a bit shit, we\u2019ve never done three choruses before and that was a pretty hard pill to swallow for us. We\u2019ve always been very against repeating too much, and we had a second verse. Fuck, we hate a second verse!<\/p>\n

Ethan: Oh dude, second verses are my Achilles\u2019 heel. Our Achilles\u2019 heel. But it\u2019s so weird because three choruses within a song, especially nowadays, is such a common thing. Any song you listen to will have at least three choruses. And I think for us, it\u2019s just never felt necessary, or we\u2019ve almost not wanted to do it just out of spite. It\u2019s like: everybody else is doing it, so we\u2019re not doing it!<\/p>\n

Jacob: \u201cIt feels lazy!\u201d<\/p>\n

Ethan: Probably not though. If it\u2019s good, it\u2019s good.<\/p>\n

5. \u201cfall into the wind\u201d<\/h3>\n

Ethan: \u201cFall into the wind\u201d was just a random thing I threw together one day. I think I was struggling to write and I just wrote this really simplistic atmospheric thing. And I don\u2019t know how it came to be on the album, I don\u2019t know how we put these two together.<\/p>\n

Jacob: I think we liked it heaps, and we were like, \u201cOh yeah, a little break is probably necessary.\u201d And we liked how jarring it was going into \u201cTONGUES\u201d because it didn\u2019t sonically work. But that was actually what we liked about it.<\/p>\n

Ethan: Yeah, I agree.<\/p>\n

Jacob: Like a \u201ccalm before the storm\u201d kind of vibe. It\u2019s fun.<\/p>\n

6. \u201cTONGUES\u201d<\/h3>\n

Jacob: I don\u2019t even remember this one.<\/p>\n

Ethan: I think you went home? We wrote \u201cTONGUES\u201d the morning after we did \u201cBODIES\u201d, which we renamed \u201cDIESEL\u201d, the night before. You and I ended up staying over at Maida\u2019s, we went out for breakfast, and I was like, \u201cWe gotta keep cooking.\u201d And you were like, \u201cI need a fucking shower.\u201d So you went home and showered, and me and Sammy just sat in the sauce, in the same clothes from the night before. We had this old riff and that was kind of it! It felt like we blinked and two hours passed when Sammy and I nutted out this song. Jacob came back and was like, \u201cThat\u2019s sick, I\u2019m gonna throw some vocals on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacob: We pretty much tracked on it straight away. But that chorus was probably the most work. It was the most I\u2019d probably been pushed to come up with a catchy melody over a really hard chord progression.<\/p>\n

Ethan: Oh yeah, you hated me that day!<\/p>\n

Jacob: I hated you. I was just like, \u201cYeah, of course you would choose the hardest fucking thing to do. How am I going to make something good, we don\u2019t have enough time, I\u2019m fucking shit.\u201d But I couldn\u2019t be more thankful for it, really, because it was such a good push. I think it worked out so well in hindsight. It was a really, really good push of my creativity, and I think we came up with something pretty cool. And I want to do it more now.<\/p>\n

Ethan: I think for the chords in that song, they sound quite dark and heavy, it almost has a weird death metal vibe to it. And in those sorts of songs you would usually just hear super harsh scream vocals over it, so I think forcing Jacob to do some sort of clean chorus was definitely a massive challenge. But he killed it. It was sick.<\/p>\n

Jacob: We got there.<\/p>\n

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7. \u201cnerv\u201d<\/h3>\n

Ethan: Oh, that one was funny.<\/p>\n

Jacob: Oh my god, that one wasn\u2019t funny at the start though. How many demos?<\/p>\n

Ethan: I can\u2019t remember? I do remember you were trying to finish a couple of demos that also didn\u2019t make it. You were doing some demos downstairs and we were like, \u201cOkay, the album\u2019s pretty good.\u201d We had eight demos or so, and we were like, \u201cWe need one more big heater, we need another banger.\u201d Jacob was down doing vocals in the living room, and I was upstairs in his vocal space trying to write a different song. I wrote one, then the boys listened to it at lunch. They were like, \u201cYeah, it\u2019s cool. It\u2019s not bad.\u201d But I knew what they were saying, I knew that it wasn\u2019t that good. So after lunch I tried again to do something else, Jacob went back and did more vocals, and I came up with the first half of \u201cnerv\u201d.<\/p>\n

I remember I wanted something in the same tempo and the same beat as a Travis Scott song, I was listening to \u201cFE!N\u201d or something like that by Travis Scott. I didn\u2019t even really like that song, it was just that the rhythm and the tempo was so cool, and it was something that we hadn\u2019t scratched on the album yet. I literally made a drum loop that sounded like a Travis Scott song, and then just wrote a riff over it. And then we turned it into \u201cnerv\u201d.<\/p>\n

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8. \u201cObsession\u201d<\/h3>\n

Jacob: \u201cObsession\u201d was a deep cut. I think this one shows a different version of us a bit. We really wanted to push new music out and we wanted to care a bit less about putting it out. I think, at that time especially, we had such a big weight on our shoulders, being like, \u201cIt has to be perfect in every single avenue.\u201d But it doesn\u2019t, because, I mean\u2026 who cares in general!<\/p>\n

I think we wanted to see and test what was happening, so we wrote \u201cViper Room\u201d, which was very much inspired by The Killers and Arctic Monkeys, that\u2019s what we were listening to at that time. And then \u201cObsession\u201d was the shoegaze part of us that we were listening to at the time. Really, we just wanted to see where the endorphins were. And I thought it was going to be \u201cViper Room\u201d, but we just couldn\u2019t get it to where we wanted it.<\/p>\n

When we finished \u201cObsession\u201d, we were all like, \u201cYeah, this is cool.\u201d And then we played it live, and we realised, \u201cOh yeah, this is what we want to keep going with!\u2019 But it was a slog.<\/p>\n

Ethan: \u201cObsession\u201d was also the first full demo we had after Heroine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jacob: It was the first time we jammed something out in a room as well.<\/p>\n

Ethan: And Heroine<\/em> came out in June of 2022, and I think we did our first US tour in March or April. I wrote \u201cObsession\u201d the week after we got back from that tour.<\/p>\n

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9. \u201cCRUSH\u201d<\/h3>\n

Ethan: The first beat of that song, and the vibe of that song, started in a catering room in Paris at the venue while we were on tour with Silent Planet. I needed to write something just for the sake of writing something. If it was a Thornhill song? Sick. If it was just something fun? Sick. I had my little in-ear receiver, the little thing you strap to your belt. I just smacked that on the table and recorded it with my phone and clicked it a bunch of times. And I had this random audio file that was just the noise of clicking, then I put it in a sampler and made that beat and just repeated it as a drum loop. Then I added kicks and snare over it to accentuate the parts that I wanted to. It was really cool, initially I was like, \u201cOh, it\u2019d be cool if this opened the next album,\u201d because it was just a little vibey piece. But it just stayed being this one and a half minute jam for ages. And Jacob threw some vocals on it initially, and it was sick, but it was still just this one and a half minute thing.<\/p>\n

And it wasn\u2019t until the week of mixing that we were like, \u201cNo, this needs to be a full song.\u201d And Jacob was like, \u201cI can drive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacob: I had a couple of different ideas about where to take it. We\u2019ve actually never really worked together instrumentally before, and on songs like \u201cSilver Swarm\u201d and this, it was both of us cooking instrumentally. We had to kind of find our footing on how to do that, but I think we both enjoyed the process of it. I felt imposter syndrome a little bit with this one, because I was like, \u201cEthan\u2019s made such a cool idea, and everything I\u2019m coming up with is so fucking shit. Am I taking it in a direction where I hear it one way, but it isn\u2019t what he\u2019s hearing?\u201d And I was questioning, \u201cIs that Thornhill? I don\u2019t know?!\u201d There were so many doubts with it. At the time, Cage was a big help. He\u2019s such an excited and good person to be around for writing, he\u2019s always like, \u201cYeah, that\u2019s sick!\u201d And you\u2019re just like, \u201cOh, thanks man!\u201d<\/p>\n

Ethan: \u201cThanks, Cage!\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacob: Yeah, thanks, Cage! It was just cool to throw some shit in there and just vibe it. But it was very much an \u201con death\u2019s door knock\u201d with that one. I think we just had to get it done whether we liked it or not. And if you\u2019re not scared, you\u2019re not doing it right.<\/p>\n

10. \u201cunder the knife\u201d<\/h3>\n

Jacob: This one\u2019s had some iterations!<\/p>\n

Ethan: A different version of \u201cunder the knife\u201d was the second song we finished for the album that was initially called \u201cLush\u201d. It was very different, it was in a completely different key, with a completely different structure. And it just wasn\u2019t really good enough. The original riff sounded too much like this really old deep cut Limp Bizkit song that was in the back corner of my mind. And then I realised, \u201cThis needs to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacob: I just couldn\u2019t make anything work over it. I was like, \u201cDude, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening, I just can\u2019t get there.\u201d We finally got it there though!<\/p>\n

Ethan: Yeah, that was the one where Maida was just about to start recording drums, and we shuffled the whole thing around. It sort of fucked with him, but we got it there. And fun fact about the start of that song and the main synth hook: I found out that \u201cIdioteque\u201d by Radiohead, one of my favourite songs of all time, sampled this really old experimental electronic song from the \u201970s. So I found that 20-minute song, sampled a different part of it \u2013 and that\u2019s what that is.<\/p>\n

11. \u201cFor Now\u201d<\/h3>\n

Jacob: This was originally an interlude to the final song, but we thought the final song was mid. We liked the interlude, and we really did not have enough time to make it a full song \u2013 but we did it anyway! And that\u2019s what \u201cFor Now\u201d is. I think we always have a bit of a soft spot for the album opener and the album closer, and with the amount of energy and attitude that the intro had for this album, we wanted to round it out. But by the end of the process, we got a bit tired of the energy.<\/p>\n

Ethan: All gas, no brakes.<\/p>\n

Jacob: Yeah, all gas, no brakes. We were like, \u201cActually, you know what? Maybe some brakes would be good because we can\u2019t stop right now!\u201d And \u201cFor Now\u201d kind of allowed that. I think we started to get back into the soundscape-y stuff by then, probably a little bit too late. But that was probably the most upfront, personal sounding song we\u2019ve done in a while. It was just supposed to be all vibe. Sammy really gassed that song in the end, which probably got us over the line with it!<\/p>\n

Ethan: Sammy was freaking out, he was trying to stick to the original song that was completely different just for the sake of not changing anything because we were just about to mix it. And then by the time we scrapped that version together, he was convinced, on board, and very excited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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