Tropical Fuck Storm Announce Live 2LP “Tropical Fuck Storm’s Inflatable Graveyard”
Tropical Fuck Storm – announce their first live album, Tropical Fuck Storm’s Inflatable Graveyard, for release September 27, 2024 on Three Lobed Recordings.
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Recorded live before a sold-out audience of crazed fans at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall in 2022, Tropical Fuck Storm’s Inflatable Graveyard captures the psych-punk band turning the volume, and weirdness, up to 11 as they present fiery and intense new takes on their fan-favorite studio discography.
The lead single, ‘Antimatter Animals‘, is available on all streaming platforms as of today. Essential listening.
TSF’s Gareth Liddiard, Fiona Kitschin, Erica Dunn, and Lauren Hammel, cordially welcome you to TFS’ Inflatable Graveyard, their debut live album. It captures their October 22, 2022 show at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall, at the peak of their “Fuck the Rain Away” tour. The performance, which spans 11 songs and over an hour of music, contains highlights from their three studio albums (2018’s A Laughing Death in Meatspace, 2019’s Braindrops, and 2021’s Deep States), accompanied by a pair of covers (“Ann” by the Stooges and “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees). Consider TFS’ Inflatable Graveyard a Greatest Hits album in the purest sense: their eldritch psychedelic ethos trapped on wax, raw and unfiltered.
The release of TFS’ pent-up creative energy, when combined with the crowd’s fervor and anticipation—they’d been waiting an equally long-ass time, after all—results in an explosive feedback loop unlike anything the band has captured on record thus far. It’s a kind of chemical reaction, a persistent euphoria that starts up the minute they take the stage to “Men’s Only Costume Party”—a bright, somewhat bizarre reggae track one of their friends cooked up in the TFS tour van—and is locked into place thirty seconds or so later, with the scorching opening measures of “Braindrops.” Excitement leads to spontaneity; before long, fan favorites are assuming remarkable new forms at staggering scale. If you thought the Zappa-esque tantrums on “You Let My Tyres Down” and “Chameleon Paint” sounded unhinged before, wait until you encounter them here; ditto for the
subtle dynamic tweaks to “Paradise” and “Antimatter Animals,” all hypnotic effects and rhythmic mind games.
TFS save their best, of course, for the encore: a one-two punch that affirms their status as one of experimental rock’s pre-eminent supergroups while simultaneously setting the stage for the foursome’s next chapter. Following a soaring, expanded take on ”Two Afternoons,” the band launch into what is perhaps their most ebullient song to date: a cover of Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive,” featuring Dunn on lead vocals, which galvanizes the catharsis of the preceding 10 songs into a hallucinogenic fever dream that’s equally conducive to moshing and making out.
In the wake of Kitschin’s successful fight against cancer (a battle that started several months after this recording), that iconic chorus feels not just impactful but premonitory. Pandemics, illness, a world on fire, political unrest: Tropical Fuck Storm might be temporarily halted now and again, but in the end, their drive makes them unstoppable.
– Zoe Camp
Tropical Fuck Storm’s Inflatable Graveyard (Three Lobed Recordings) Release Date: September 27, 2024 2LP / Digital Pre-Order from Happy Valley Now
Tropical Fu*k Storm’s Inflatable Graveyard
Track list:
1. Braindrops
2. Chameleon Paint
3. Antimatter Animals
4. New Romeo Agent
5. You Let My Tyres Down
6. Legal Ghost
7. Ann
8. Rubber Bullies
9. Paradise
10. Two Afternoons
11. Stayin’ Alive
