TROPICAL F*CK STORM
Post-apocalyptic acid punk disco scuzzheads TFS were formed in 2017 after Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin's band the Drones went on a vacation, they roped in Lauren Hammel on drums and Erica Dunn on guitar.
TFS have released three studio records ‘A Laughing Death In Meatspace’ (2018), ‘Braindrops’ (2019), ‘Deep States’ (2021). Two Ep’s ‘Moonburn’ (2022) and ‘Satanic Slumber Party’ (2022), an unholy psych noise pop collaboration with good mates Kings Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard.
They toured nonstop all over the world, selling out headline shows and joining some of the most coveted festival line up’s around the globe.
One of the qualities that sets Tropical Fuck Storm apart from their peers and often formidable influences, such as Captain Beefheart, Birthday Party and even early Talking Heads, is their commitment to building songs on the weirdest possible grooves. It’s not so much a feature as a foundational premise of the band. They’re groovy in a way that catches the blues by surprise and shifts it to an alternate, heretofore-unheard tempo that picks up and winds down at will.
What makes Tropical Fuck Storm as vital as they are unsettling is how well their songs, which often seem chaotic, fractured, and as brutal as the subjects they consider, speak to the currents of our contemporary worry.
They’re making a strange sort of musical magic, to be sure. But they’re also demanding that we confront a world where change isn’t necessarily gonna come, with a smirk on your face, a skip in your step and a great tune swirling through your ears.