Original Message——-

From: Che Brooks/Mordam Records

Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 3:21 PM

To: info@subpop.com

Subject: thermals

What did the Thermals do to piss you guys off?
Their new album has one of the worst album covers
I’ve seen this year! Is that a construction paper sun?
And a guy with a football jumping out of nuclear power
plant? What the hell!

I don’t know which first grade class you gave this
to as a project but it screams “don’t pick me up!”
And the title is stupid as well. No gold stars for
Mrs. Crabtree’s class.

I like the cd. Good tunes, the singers vocals seem
more nasaly then the last album, but cool anyways.
It’s just too bad they equated being a punk rock band
with having shitty art.

Winston Smith they are not.

-che