If you’re not familiar with the band The Thing then it’s high time you get in the know. The New York City group are releasing some potent garage – psych cuts, with their debut album Here’s The Thing having dropped in April of 2023. Without wasting any time at all, they are scheduled to pump out their sophomore LP titled The Thing Is on February 2nd, 2024. With the four piece already sharing two singles from the upcoming record, they now unveil the third single along with a video dubbed ‘Midnight’. What you get here is an absolutely killer piece of charged rock.

The video, which is directed by Alexander Beal, features the group on a jewel heist mission, which unlikely most similar tales, actually end up successful. Have a look.

Regarding the single, The Thing mentioned:

“The initial idea came from a drunken stupor years ago when we were jamming in our living room. We spent close to an hour just on the one riff. We’ve been enjoying writing this way, entering a trance and trying to find a song amidst a cacophony. Eventually, we revisited this voice memo during our recording session for this album.

We whittled it down and settled on a form but had not found the lyrics. So, on the tail end of our most recent tour, we spent a few nights in an Airbnb in the Appalachians. The lyrics were inspired from conversions about nuclear weapons and how our time on earth is measured by a doomsday clock countdown. We were asking existential questions and affirming our belief in a creative life. We felt the spy-like essence to the instrumental fitted that lyrical theme nicely.”