Melbourne's sweatiest experimental rock band Tropical Fuck Storm are back with deranged political anthem Bloodsport.
The new single is the first taste of their fourth LP Fairyland Codex, which lands this winter via UK label Fire Records.
Co-produced with Michael Beach at their Nagambie studio, the album promises to be another apocalyptic trip through the collapse of civil society – business as usual for the ARIA-winning four-piece.
Tropical Fuck Storm
- Out June 20 via Fire Records
- Pre-order here
Check out our gig guide, our arts guide, our festival guide, our live music venue guide and our nightclub guide. Follow us on Instagram here.
Vocalist Gareth Liddiard describes the snarling new track as “A canticle of enticement to all dancing molecules left on planet earth to do their stretches and step into the ring for something braver than a bareknuckle fight; a pulse check. An anthem of resistance for all left with a beating heart to scoop themselves out of the bubble bath of social malaise and backyard domineering to perceive the ticking clock of reality square in the face before we are all left to eat Levis scraps like fruity loops in bowls of printer toner and orangutang juice.”
It’s the kind of unhinged statement we’ve come to expect from Liddiard, whose previous band The Drones spent two decades making sure no one in Australia could sleep too comfortably.
Since forming in 2016, TFS have released a trio of acclaimed albums – A Laughing Death In Meatspace (2018), Braindrops (2019) and Deep States (2021) – while touring relentlessly around the globe.
Their live shows have become notorious for their intensity, with Liddiard joined by bassist Fiona Kitschin, guitarist Erica Dunn, and drummer Lauren Hammel creating a perfect storm of explosive energy and off-kilter harmonies.
When asked about the band’s refusal to surrender to despair despite their bleak worldview, Liddiard offered: “There’s an Anna Akhmatova poem where she talks about how much life sucks and how the world is just a shithole full of arseholes then she says something like, ‘why then do we not despair?’ Charles Darwin could give her the short answer, but music has the 12-inch metaphysical party mix solution.”
For more information, head here.
