Tropical F*ck Storm Announce New Album, 'Fairyland Codex'
The enigmatic Tropical Fuck Storm will unleash their long-awaited fourth album this June.
Tropical Fuck Storm (Credit: Jamie Wdziekonski/Supplied)
Just a month after the release of new single Goon Show and news of a signing to the influential Fire Records label, Tropical Fuck Storm have returned with news of their forthcoming new album, Fairyland Codex.
Their fourth record, and their first album of new material since 2021's #7-charting Deep States, the record arrives following a series of EPs and a live album in recent years. Fairyland Codex will officially release on June 20th, with pre-orders available now.
The record’s announcement is also paired with their latest single, Bloodsport, which is described as having a sense of funk à la Talking Heads, with a stuttering guitar break also joining in the mix.
“A canticle of enticement to all dancing molecules left on planet earth to do their stretches and step into the ring for something braver than a bareknuckle fight; a pulse check,” the group explain of he track.
“An anthem of resistance for all left with a beating heart to scoop themselves out of the bubble bath of social malaise and backyard domineering to perceive the ticking clock of reality square in the face before we are all left to eat Levis scraps like fruity loops in bowls of printer toner and orangutang juice.”
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Fairyland Codex captures Tropical Fuck Storm at their very best, with the band nearing a decade spent as one of the most anarchic and acerbic outfits on the Australian music scene. Enigmatic, energetic, and entirely eclectic, they’ve managed to carve out a niche that is as frantic and unforgiving as their songwriting, yet as welcoming and down-to-earth as their collective personalities.
“There’s an Anna Akhmatova poem where she talks about how much life sucks and how the world is just a shithole full of arseholes then she says something like, ‘why then do we not despair?’,” notes Gareth Liddiard. “Charles Darwin could give her the short answer, but music has the 12-inch metaphysical party mix solution.”
The new record will also be accompanied by extensive global touring in the coming months, which will see the band visit North America and Europe in the middle of the year. Likewise, members of Tropical Fuck Storm will be performing in Melbourne this May, with Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin reprising their roles as members of The Drones for their first shows in nine years as part of the upcoming Platonic Love Jam gigs.
These sold-out dates will also see Erica Dunn performing with Mod Con, and will feature The Nation Blue, Paul Kelly, Dan Kelly, and Cold Chisel’s Don Walker.
This piece of content has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body
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