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.
Out today, new single ‘Dunning Kruger’s Loser Cruiser’ is a classic overestimation of knowledge with a ranting preacher highlighted over a disenfranchised choir of would-be none believers. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. Released alongside new music video that was produced by Nespy 5 Euro (credits Gilla Band, Metz, Deerhoof) with contributions from 3D animator Happisoft, it’s another intense, animated adventure.
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.”
2025 Live 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
NEW DATES ADDED
19 Sep: Stone Church, Brattleboro, VT, US
20 Sep: Cafe Campus, Montreal, QC, Canada
21 Sep: Lee’s Palace, Toronto, ON, Canada
23 Sep: Spirit Lodge, Pittsburgh, PA, US
30 Sep: The Hanger, Troy, NY, US
01 Oct: Crystall Ballroom, Boston, MA, US
02 Oct: Underground Arts, Philadelphia, PA, US
03 Oct: Tubby’s, Kingston, NY, US
* w/ Bill Orcutt
** w/ Bill Orcutt, Chris Corsano Duo
