The Drones - any good (also Tropical Fuck Storm content here)

I See Seaweed is secretly one of the best rock records ever

I'm not sure they've ever come up with a front-to-back, total classic but ISS def comes closest

now I'm curious as to why the hell Havilah isn't on Spotify

Any word on a new album? I can't wait to hear what's next!

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

Oh Simon, you just made my night! This is more of the messed up weirdness I love about them, outstanding.

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?

presumably from people who got there via googling for.......other things

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

the drones have loads and loads of dislikes on quite a few of their videos too

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

Ahhhhh.

so yeah exactly as surmised

'fearful' a malapropism I'd like to claim as deliberate

These new songs are properly great, I'm so hyped

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.

There's also this: https://kompakt.fm/releases/boredom_remixes (had to double check as I first read Boredoms remixes! :)

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

This album, not his album! It's three times as much her album as his :)

Is the 4th single out yet?

yes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhOUfxIvgY

amusingly straight-up (if noisy) cover of "Stayin' Alive" on the flipside

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.

https://noisey.vice.com/en_au/article/xw7bbk/tropical-fuck-storm-album-stream-premiere-interview-gareth-liddiard-2018

here ya go fuckers

thanks, fucker, I enjoyed that

this fucking slaps!

"You Let My Tyres Down" is a fine opener but it makes you expect a Drones album and this....is not that, holy shit

very great, weird rock album. the switch to quieter music for the last 3.5 songs is extremely unsettling

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

this is really really good. all of Gareth's stuff across the board is criminally underrated pretty much anywhere that isn't Australia

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

I also think this is a grower album

yeah I am going to keep hyping this

very excited to stick "The Future of History" on my running playlist

This is nigh-on album of the year. Bumping it again because people keep bumping the fucking Parquet Courts thread

this is great, love(d) the drones

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.

kinda assuming there is some interpersonal stuff or musical difference in terms of this being tropical fuck storm and not the drones
in 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

Feelin' Kinda Free def paved the way for it.

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

The Tropical Fuck Storm record is so great

My copy of the CD just arrived. Great cover to go along with the fuckstorm of music.

I'm assuming there's never gonna be a stateside physical release for this?

I got the CD for typical US cost via Amazon.

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?

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!

I would fucking kill for them to tour Canada.

Australians: has this made much of an impression locally?

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

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.

This is excellent. I should reaaly check out The Drones too