Tropical Fuck Storm Release New Album, Braindrops, on Aug. 23; Stream "Paradise"

TROPICAL FUCK STORM RELEASE NEW ALBUM, BRAINDROPS, ON AUG. 23 VIA JOYFUL NOISE RECORDINGS BAND PREVIEWS NEW ALBUM WITH “PARADISE” SONG STREAM https://youtu.be/auPVu16GIVU NORTH AMERICAN TOUR KICKS OFF ON AUG. 28

Photo credit: Jamie Wdziekonsk

	June 18, 2019, Outback, Australia – Tropical Fuck Storm, the off-kilter, avant-psych Australian outfit, release their sophomore album, Braindrops, on Aug. 23 via Joyful Noise Recordings. “I've invented fake news as a genre of music,” TFS singer/songwriter Gareth Liddiard states on the new album. Braindrops overflows with compelling sounds and visions that reflect the often dark and fractured reality of life on planet Earth as we hurtle toward environmental and social decay at a frighteningly rapid clip. Liddiard and his TFS co-conspirators, bass player Fiona Kitschin (his Drones’ bandmate), guitar player Erica Hung (Harmony/Palm Springs) and drummer Lauren Hammel (High Tension) recorded the nine-song album in the Australian outback, at the outfit’s “Dodgy Brothers Studio” in regional Victoria. A preview of the nine-song collection is available via the newly released song “Paradise” (https://youtu.be/auPVu16GIVU). Tropical Fuck Storm released their debut, A Laughing Death In Meatspace, to worldwide acclaim, with Australia’s Double J saying the album is “filled with the sort of acerbic wit only Gareth Liddiard can muster, this is the most essential, moody, pulverising, funny, off-key, venomous Antipodean post punk album of the year.” The UK’s Guardian newspaper called the nine-track release “a glorious detour into deconstructed rock music, reflective of social malaise and unafraid to tell it like it is.” U.S. outlets praised the release, with Slate saying the outfit sound “like the Mekons under assault by both Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band and a sentient PlayStation,” adding “Tropical Fuck Storm radiates a vitality I would follow anywhere, very much at my own risk.” Braindrops pre-orders are available via Joyful Noise Recordings’ webstore (lnk.to/Braindrops). The band previously released the track “The Planet of Straw Men” (https://youtu.be/M2xOxmHTYMg) as a limited edition 7-inch and accompanying digital single. Tropical Fuck Storm tour dates: August 28 Los Angeles, CA Bootleg August 29 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill August 30 Arcata, CA Richard’s Goat Tavern August 31 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios September 1 Vancouver, BC Static Jupiter September 3 Seattle, WA Barboza September 6 Washington, DC Comet Ping Pong September 7 Raleigh, NC Hopscotch Festival September 8 Atlanta, GA The Earl September 10 Austin, TX Hotel Vegas September 11 Dallas, TX Three Links September 13 St. Louis, MO Duck Room September 14 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle September 15 Cleveland, OH Now That’s Class September 17 Toronto, ON Baby G September 18 Montreal, QC Le Ritz September 19 Boston, MA Great Scott September 20 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere November 6 Manchester, UK Soup Kitchen November 7 Brighton, UK The Hope and Ruin November 8 London, UK Islington Assembly Hall

Braindrops album cover; painting by Joe Becker

	Braindrops track list: Paradise The Planet of Straw Men Who’s My Eugene? The Happiest Guy Around Maria 62 Braindrops Aspirin Desert Sands of Venus Maria 63 # # # Tropicalfuckstormrecords.com Facebook.com/tropicalfstorm Twitter.com/tfs_theband Instagram.com/tropical_fuck_storm