Thuston Moore has recently been putting out previously unreleased songs on his Bandcamp, and he recently put out a new instrumental, and now he announced a proper new album, By the Fire, and released its first single, "Hashish." He made the album with his former Sonic Youth bandmate Steve Shelley on drums, My Bloody Valentine's Deb Googe on bass and backing vocals, and James Sedwards on guitar (all of whom are also in the Thurston Moore Group), and it also features contributions from Wobbly (aka Jon Leidecker of Negativland) on electronics and Jem Doulton on drums. Thurston calls "Hasish" "an ode to the narcotic of love in our shared responsibility to each other during isolation," and it's a relaxed yet hypnotic song that sounds like classic Thurston Moore, and is a very promising first taste of this LP. Listen below.
About the album, Thurston also said: