Any word on a new album? I can't wait to hear what's next!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 19 March 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link
Gareth and Fiona have a new project called Tropical Fuck Storm, album's out in May
http://www.beat.com.au/music/meet-tropical-fuck-storm-supergroup-featuring-members-drones-high-tension-harmony
― Simon H., Monday, 19 March 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
Oh Simon, you just made my night! This is more of the messed up weirdness I love about them, outstanding.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 19 March 2018 02:07 (six years ago) link
the advance singles are promising! 'soft power' especially. no idea why there are so many dislikes on the youtube videos - is it a thing they encourage?
― imago, Monday, 19 March 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
presumably from people who got there via googling for.......other things
― Simon H., Monday, 19 March 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
given the political leanings of the group, one wonders whether they've tangled once too often with the fearful power of the online alt-right
― imago, Monday, 19 March 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
the drones have loads and loads of dislikes on quite a few of their videos too
― imago, Monday, 19 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
i think it's because they insulted prominent Australian conservative columnist Andrew Bolt in one of their songs, who responded with a tirade against them on his blog
― ufo, Monday, 19 March 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
Ahhhhh.
― Simon H., Monday, 19 March 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
so yeah exactly as surmised
― imago, Monday, 19 March 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
'fearful' a malapropism I'd like to claim as deliberate
― imago, Monday, 19 March 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
These new songs are properly great, I'm so hyped
― imago, Monday, 19 March 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
Right? Instruments come in and out, but not in a dub-style. It's like they broke apart a song and put it back together as best they could but lost a bunch of pieces. And the unhinged vocals are icing on the cake.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 19 March 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
There's also this: https://kompakt.fm/releases/boredom_remixes (had to double check as I first read Boredoms remixes! :)
― willem, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
I'd like to hype his album again
All of the advance singles are amazing. You Let My Tyres Down is one of the best songs to be released this year
Hype! Oh and I See Seaweed is incredible too
― imago, Friday, 13 April 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
This album, not his album! It's three times as much her album as his :)
― imago, Friday, 13 April 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
Is the 4th single out yet?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 13 April 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
yes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhOUfxIvgY
― imago, Friday, 13 April 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
amusingly straight-up (if noisy) cover of "Stayin' Alive" on the flipside
― Simon H., Saturday, 14 April 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
Excellent, just bought it from Amazon! And that cover isn't too straight, lots of weirdness in the background. I dig it.
Cannot wait for the album, I expect it'll be one of my favorite releases of the year.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 14 April 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
https://noisey.vice.com/en_au/article/xw7bbk/tropical-fuck-storm-album-stream-premiere-interview-gareth-liddiard-2018
here ya go fuckers
― imago, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
thanks, fucker, I enjoyed that
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
this fucking slaps!
― Simon H., Thursday, 3 May 2018 01:58 (six years ago) link
"You Let My Tyres Down" is a fine opener but it makes you expect a Drones album and this....is not that, holy shit
― Simon H., Thursday, 3 May 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
very great, weird rock album. the switch to quieter music for the last 3.5 songs is extremely unsettling
― imago, Thursday, 3 May 2018 10:45 (six years ago) link
the third song and "Rubber Bullies" are the standouts for me, it's wild that they've only been a unit for like 8 months
― Simon H., Thursday, 3 May 2018 12:10 (six years ago) link
this is really really good. all of Gareth's stuff across the board is criminally underrated pretty much anywhere that isn't Australia
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 3 May 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link
I Sea Seaweed is probably going to be resurrected as a modern classic tbh, at least if I and the RYM massive have anything to do with it
This is almost as good. I think the singles are largely the best tracks but the others are no slouches
― imago, Thursday, 3 May 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
I also think this is a grower album
― imago, Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
yeah I am going to keep hyping this
― imago, Friday, 4 May 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
very excited to stick "The Future of History" on my running playlist
― Simon H., Friday, 4 May 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
This is nigh-on album of the year. Bumping it again because people keep bumping the fucking Parquet Courts thread
― imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
this is great, love(d) the drones
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 May 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
This is nigh-on album of the year.
Yep, I'm with you here. A great blend of weird guitars, propulsive beats, political lyrics, righteous anger, and male/female vocals. It pisses on generic indie rock from a great height.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 7 May 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
kinda assuming there is some interpersonal stuff or musical difference in terms of this being tropical fuck storm and not the dronesin that this is great but i could def see this being a drones record, even if it's a bit more expansive in some ways
almost like a mclusky > future of the left thing
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 May 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
Feelin' Kinda Free def paved the way for it.
― Simon H., Monday, 7 May 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
Gareth and Fiona's official line is that the other Drones members had loads of side-projects and they wanted one too...but hearing Gareth calling all his old stuff 'wank' I'm inclined to believe they wanted a new project and that this might be it for The Drones for now. Talk of a second TFS record already in the works and an incendiary live show. I think they're onto a winner here - much more scope for following their weirder (yet strangely more direct) urges. And besides, I See Seaweed was so great...they were never going to be able to put out anything to match it, really, it has the feel of an unconquerable moment. FKF was a rebellion against having to follow up ISS, and TFS is the glorious realisation of that rebellion imo
― imago, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
The Tropical Fuck Storm record is so great
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 May 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
My copy of the CD just arrived. Great cover to go along with the fuckstorm of music.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 25 May 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
I'm assuming there's never gonna be a stateside physical release for this?
― Simon H., Friday, 25 May 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
I got the CD for typical US cost via Amazon.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 25 May 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
Fuck - the Tropical Fuck Storm record is amazing! I loved Feeling Kinda Free, but this is even noisier, hookier, and just... exciting. Also ordered via amazon.
Australians: has this made much of an impression locally?
― paulhw, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
It hasn't surpassed "Feelin Kinda Free" for me yet but it feels like a natural extension.
I played it for a mate who dug it, he subsequently played it for some of his 20-something workmates and they dug it, too. People just need to hear it!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 5 July 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
I would fucking kill for them to tour Canada.
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 July 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
i would say good solid interest and support but not quite the firestorm of enthusiasm the music deserves? which i guess is the case for the drones also
i went to one of the pre-LP TFS shows and it was really great but i hadn't at that point got a good sense of this as a project distinct from the drones - definitely an extension of the Feelin Kinda Free sound (as mentioned above) and quite a few Drones songs in the set
real keen to go again now the project has hit its straps
totally love the way Gareth and pals have managed to elude worthiness and pursue something more bent
― umsworth (emsworth), Thursday, 5 July 2018 00:57 (five years ago) link
related: the new Harmony album is out today - TFS' Erica Dunn is a member, and they sound a bit like a much more depressed Drones/TFS. The new album is very good on first contact.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 20 July 2018 10:50 (five years ago) link
This is excellent. I should reaaly check out The Drones too
― . (Michael B), Monday, 3 September 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
you haven't? omg
start with the newest one and work backwards maybe. actually fuck it start with 'i see seaweed' it's one of the best albums of the last 20 years
― imago, Monday, 3 September 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
agreed
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
excellent new TFS tune on this split single with Liars:
https://famousclass.bandcamp.com/album/lamc-18
They're currently opening for Modest Mouse on some US dates.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 17 September 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link