Album Notes

"While of lot of tunes reviewed on Perfect Porridge reflect our love of indie rock, we will readily admit our secret love of industrial music. Lucky us to have the new Thosquanta disc arrive in the kitchen this week.

Minneapolis’ Adam Powell has grown his late-90's dorm room project into the four member Thosquanta (pronounce it correctly, and win a badly scratched record), and we like what we hear.

Lovelife’s mix of grumbling, darkwave lyrics interspersed with Jen Plum’s female panache, gothy metal synth and industrial beats yield a refreshing mix of straight-up electronica and electrowave you can dance, sing or cry along with. We’ll leave the choice up to you, but the smoking hot vocalist not only in the band but posing topless on the cover is more than influencing our decision.

RIYL: KMFDM Gravity Kills, The Sneaker Pimps, remixed Rob Zombie"

- Perfect Porridge


Alone in his tiny dorm room in the late 1990’s, Adam Powell constructed and refined a band he called Thosquanta. For the next few years, Powell went on to write, perform, mix and record two albums as this “band”, a dark industrial sound with a slight synth-pop edge. Years later while at a raucous Faint concert, Adam quite literally ran into Jen Plum, a singer and songwriter he quickly recruited for the new band, which was slowly becoming a strange amalgam of goth, industrial, rock and country.

After the underground success of “Phoenix”, their first album together as the new and improved Thosquanta, the band has joined forces with [301STUDIOS] to release “lovelife.”, a dark and heavy re-imagining of the project. Combining a wide variety of influences from goth and metal to hip-hop and industrial, the band has received comparisons ranging from Sister Machine Gun to The Sneaker Pimps. While the band name may not be easy to pronounce, it’s their ability to write a good pop song mixed with an extremely dark, electronic edge that has helped them emerge as one of the many artists grooming the Twin Cities for the electropunk takeover.