Genre-bending Tropical Fuck Storm announce their highly anticipated new album, ‘Fairyland Codex’ out June 20th, 2025, on their new label home Fire Records. Recorded with co-producer Michael Beach at the band’s Dodgy Brothers studio in Nagambie, Australia, the songs on ‘Fairyland Codex’ immerse us in the chaos of a fateful landslide, picking out the characters that litter the impending collapse of society.
Filled with well-schooled social anarchy, new single ‘Bloodsport’ has a Talking Heads-styled funk and a stuttering guitar break.
“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. 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.” adds Erica Dunn
The release of ‘Bloodsport’ comes with an animated video collage directed by Nespy 5Euro, who shares: “My stay at the TFS B&B was extremely pleasant. For five euros a night I have lived for a month inside Erica’s head where you can attend clandestine canape fights and showers in rivers of acid vomit. I couldn’t sleep because my neighbours continued to torture guitars. The room service was: a box of chocolates full of chicks, and clothes soup (house specialty). I recommend this accommodation. 5 stars.”
Tropical Fuck Storm formed when guitarist and vocalist Gareth Liddiard and bassist and vocalist Fiona Kitschin’s previous band, The Drones, went on hiatus in 2016. Joined by guitarist, keyboardist, and vocalist Erica Dunn and drummer Lauren Hammel, the group has released a string of critically acclaimed albums and gained a reputation for their incendiary live shows.
Acidic, acerbic, anarchic; Tropical Fuck Storm’s command of wordplay, undercut by snarling guitars, pulsing rhythms, and explosive salvos, populates a hinterland between light and dark. The vocal interplay between Liddiard and the soaring harmonies of Kitschin and Dunn creates a teetering balancing act that’s intensified by the frantic narratives that evolve from their collective psyche.
“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?’.” Liddiard pontificates, “Charles Darwin could give her the short answer, but music has the 12-inch metaphysical party mix solution.”
TOUR DATES
19 Jun: Sled Island, Calgary, Canada
21 Jun: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY US*
23 Jun: Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL, US**
24 Jun: Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL, US**
26 Jun: Off Broadway, St. Louis, MO, US**
27 Jun: Resonant Head, Oklahoma City, OK, US**
28 Jun: Cheap Steaks, Dallas, TX, US**
29 Jun: Ballroom, Austin, TX, US*
01 Jul: Club Congress, Tucson, AZ, US*
02 Jul: Valley Bar, Phoenix, AZ, US*
03 Jul Casbah, San Diego, CA, US*
05 Jul: Lodge Room, Los Angeles, CA, US*
06 Jul: The Chapel, San Francisco, CA, US*
09 Jul: Aladdin Theatre, Portland, OR, US*
10 Jul: Neumos, Seattle, WA, US*
21 Aug: Kafe Antzokia, Bilbao, Spain
23 Aug: Canela Party, Torremolinos, Spain
27 Aug: MON Live, Madrid, Spain
28 Aug: Apolo 2, Barcelona, Spain
30 Aug: Manchester Psych Festival, Manchester, UK
28-31 Aug: End Of The Road Festival, Salisbury, UK
02 Sep: Electric Ballroom, London, UK
04 Sep: Reflektor, Liege, Belgium
05 Sep: Misty Fields, Heusden Gem Asten, Netherlands
06 Sep: Wintercircus, Ghent, Belgium
* w/ Bill Orcutt
** w/ Bill Orcutt, Chris Corsano Duo
