10/05/2021

TIBERIUS B Releases 'Stains' EP On Vinyl 10/8

RELEASES STAINS EP ON VINYL 
OCTOBER 8TH

SHARES “STAINS” YU SU REMIX &
 “NO SMOKE” X/O REMIX

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR WITH TOPS
TO PLAY PITCHFORK LONDON
(credit: Dexter Lander)
Tiberius b is gearing up for the long awaited vinyl release of their Stains EP which was released to much buzz earlier this year. To celebrate they are also releasing two new remixes of songs from Stains including the EP’s title track and “No Smoke.” For the remixes Tiberius b enlisted x/o and Yu Su, two artists they admire deeply and knew would give the songs a new life.

Tiberius b explains “It was sweet and Cathartic to have these songs that were quite painful for me to bring into this world reimagined by two artists who I love and trust as friends. I saw x/o perform in London the winter before I recorded the EP and was very inspired by their set, particularly by their drum sounds.”

x/o is a Vietnamese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist Veron Xio. Interested in disrupting binaries and transgressing codes of identity, x/o uses themes of duality, contrasting sonics and butterfly evolution allegories to create new worlds around songwriting and storytelling. Previously described by The Wire Magazine as having "…a complex, compelling affect hardly heard in digital music..." they are currently preparing new music for 2022. They tell us "written during my first autumn months in Berlin, it's that introspective feeling that Tiberius B really captures and I wanted to fully submerge in underwater; deeply melancholic but with the glimmers of hope - sunlight that sometimes trickles through."
 
For the “Stains” remix Tiberius b tapped Yu Su who says “Francesca is a dear friend and I cannot be honored enough to rework this song. I hear such urge of looking forward to the end of a tunnel in “Stains", I want this journey to be lifted from the ground or to go underwater so that getting to the end doesn't really matter anymore, and that dream/reality & past/present have been mystified by something out of our hands.”
 
 
Tiberius b will be on tour starting next week joining TOPS in their North American tour. They will also play their own shows in LA and a headlining show at Berlin in New York with Quiet Luke before returning to their hometown of London to play Pitchfork London. All dates are listed below. 
 
Tiberius b Tour Dates
10/13 - Los Angeles, CA | Baader House
10/14 - Palm Springs, CA | Awe Bar*
10/15 - Phoenix, AZ | Valley Bar*
10/16 - Tucson, AZ | 191 Toole *
10/17 - El Paso, TX | Good Times at 2626*
10/19 - San Antonio, TX | Paper Tiger*
10/20 - Houston, TX | Warehouse Live (The Studio)*
10/22 - Austin, TX | Mohawk*
10/23 - Dallas, TX | Club Dada*
10/24 - Memphis, TN | The Hi Tone Cafe*
10/25 - Atlanta, GA | Terminal West*
10/27 - Chapel Hill, NC | Local 506 *
10/28 - Baltimore, MD | Comet Ping Pong*
10/29 - Philadelphia, PA | Johnny Brenda's *
10/31 - New York, NY | Bowery Ballroom*
11/01 - New York, NY | Berlin
11/07 - Brighton, UK | Mutations
11/13 - London, UK | Pitchfork London (Pickle Factory)
12/10 - Manchester, uk | YES (basement)
* - supporting TOPS
 
 
Press for Stains…
 
"It's the hyper-confident delivery and the sense of restlessness beneath the mix make the whole thing irresistible." - The FADER 
 
"Wears their heart on their sleeve on the emotionally raw and poignant title track." - Gorilla vs Bear 
 
"Tiberius b visually explores the freeing sense of biking but digs deeper in the the freeing sense of one’s awakening through each pulsing twist." - American Songwriter 
 
"The musician and singer has shown an exciting range of soulful R&B and sultry-leaning pop...Today, they shared the EP’s third single and title track, which is possibly their most ambitious release yet." - FLOOD 

BIO
Original, unfiltered and radiating tenacity, Tiberius b is a singer and producer adept at both emboldening audiences and offering them catharsis through diaristic songwriting. 

Raised in the woods on a remote island in Western Canada, Tiberius' take on pop music is as raw and electrifying as these early surroundings. After relocating to their birthplace of London, England in 2017, they traded the synths for a borrowed B.C. Rich Warlock guitar and swaggering downtempo beats, calling on influences from their parent's CD collection like Portishead, Massive Attack and Blur for debut EP Stains. 

In early 2020, while society spiraled out thanks to the newly-proclaimed global pandemic, Tiberius got a call from their uncle asking them to take care of their elderly grandmother in the remote Welsh countryside. Eventually, when she was moved to hospital, they found themselves alone in her house for six long weeks, during which the EP came to be. 

Grounded by Tiberius' years of songwriting experience, Stains effortlessly guides listeners through breakups, sexual awakenings, gender euphoria, isolation, psychedelic divinations and moments of complete exasperation.  

"Big Deal" shakes off the debris of past heartbreaks, charging towards new loves with a sanguine stomp. Effusing the same unfuckwithable boldness as Tiberius’ lyrics, punch-drunk drums strut through an achingly sentimental guitar melody, solidifying the song’s joyful defiance.

The EP’s title track "Stains" on the other hand doesn’t sugarcoat their anger. Coming to a slow boil, the former reckons with the soft torture of watching an ex float through the world while you’re stuck languishing in their mess, complete with a shouty atonal breakdown reminiscent of Fiona Apple. 

Peppered with exasperated UGH!!!s "Steps" rolls its eyes at the past with shady quips and heavy fed-up strumming. “I dropped acid on my own / crawled up the river on all fours / laughing maniacally HAHA / no no I’m not going crazy,” they shout, catapulting themselves towards the wide world beyond grief with every forceful word.

"Tears Into The Sun" looks at the bigger picture, reckoning with the loss of friends and family members, and wondering how their community can endure an increasingly inhospitable world. “If all of us who struggle to withstand the structure survive, then what will we live off of?” they sing, for all those trekking through life in the brambles outside of its government-advised trails.

A release rich with playful explorations of pop structures the EP jumps between moments of hopefulness and weltschmerz, offering fresh perspectives on the peaks and valleys of coming into oneself.

Tracklisting
1. No Smoke
2. Big Deal
3. Steps
4. Stains
5. Green Heart
6. Tears into the Sun 
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