They bonded over ridiculous headgear, and during Covid found themselves with nothing to do. So they made a great album
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Plenty of artists felt compelled to write and record during the Covid lockdown, but few did so in quite such intense circumstances as Thus Love. The band’s three members – vocalist and guitarist Echo Marshall, drummer Lu Racine and bass player Nathaniel van Osdol – had all moved to the small Vermont town of Brattleboro independently. They met in what they have described as “a small community of freaks” centring around a local arts collective, and the seeds of the band were planted when Marshall was invited by a fellow musician to jam in a silk screen print shop owned by Racine. The latter’s interest was piqued by Marshall’s choice of headgear: “I had a ridiculous hat on,” Marshall remembers, “and I had no idea what I was doing.”