Tag: Tropical Fuck Storm

The Aussie miscreants return with the latest single from their upcoming third album.

Singles seldom appear on my radar. Music should be consumed holistically, and when I say that I mean by waiting for a new album, as opposed listening to a strand of it prior to its release.

Like everything, though, exceptions are made and with Tropical Fuck Storm that very much applies.

Tropical Fuck Storm defy many things. They deconstruct the mould. Their boundaries a peerless, undefined.

Legal Ghost, the band’s latest single from their forthcoming third album is yet another portion of weirdo proto-rock that the band have mastered spanning over their two albums and various singles in the wake of singer/guitarist, Gareth Liddiard, and singer/bassist, Fiona Kitschin‘s former band – the glorious hellraisers, The Drones.

With Legal Ghost, a track picked from the ashes of a discarded campfire of Liddiard’s 90s project with initial Drones co-founder, Rui Pereira in Bong Odyssey, it’s Tropical Fuck Storm sounding, shall we say, content?

Not in a nostalgic way; this band is too young and too smart to fall into that poisonous trap.

Legal Ghost sounds more like a band honing in on their sweet spot.

Don’t mistake us here, it’s distinctively TFS, without question. It’s just something that you can tap your foot to instead of completely losing your mind to the band’s usual frenzied chaos. No bad thing at all.

Lyrically, once again Liddiard‘s brooding honesty is on show as he sings, “It doesn’t really matter who you sleep with now, you’re just a legal ghost/It doesn’t really matter who you talk to now, you’re just a legal ghost.”

Yes, we’re all dead on our feet…

It’s hideously cynical but that’s the world we live in and, once again, with Legal Ghost Tropical Fuck Storm tell us how it is, showcasing their unbridled talent for the truth.

Legal Ghost is out now via Joyful Noise Recordings