[Cover photo credit to Micheal Thiel]

Belgian Industrial, Post-Rock collective THOT have announced their forthcoming fourth full-length album, Delta, set for release on the 10th of May 2024 through Berlin’s Pelagic Records.

Delta is their first long form release since 2017’s FLEUVE and is a “musical melting pot of the people, places, spaces and times” that have shaped the band so far. The track “Supercluster” is out now.

Like so many projects begun in and around 2019, Delta was derailed by the pandemic, with the first iteration of the album scrapped entirely. Band leader and principal songwriter Grégoire Fray, born in France but based in Belgium, found himself questioning his identity as an artist in the wake of the global catastrophe. This crisis became the catalyst for Delta’s new shape. Having never performed vocals in French, he embarked on using French alongside English lyrics.

Delta was written, arranged, recorded and documented between late 2019 and 2023 by Fray alongside THOT collaborators Lukas Melville, Gil Chevingné, Stéphane Fedele, Anaïs Elba, Michael Thiel and Juliette Mauduit. The album also features a collaboration with the women of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, a Bulgarian traditional polyphonic choir previously sampled by THOT.

Lead single “Supercluster” was the last track written for the record and sees the band “embracing the confusion of a world turned upside down.”

Grégoire says:

‘Supercluster’ represents a Covid supercluster just like it represents a galactic supercluster. A scale ranging from microscopic to monolithic like this makes us realise that whatever we’re wrestling with, whether it’s ourselves or each other, is ultimately insignificant and immaterial. Enjoy life, enjoy the ride.