"The Thaw Session" is a jam session by English alternative rock band The Verve. It was released exclusively as a free download by the band through the NME website on 22 October 2007. The fourteen-minute song was available for only one week from the website and intended as a preview to the material the band has been working on since reforming in the summer of 2007.
The title of the download is a reference to "Deep Freeze," a hidden track in "Come On," the final song on the band's 1997 studio album Urban Hymns.
Testament to The Verve's legacy, there is a band in Edinburgh named after this EP.
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