Tropical Fuck Storm & King Gizzard - Satanic Slumber Party - Pink Silkscreened - 12-INCH SINGLE [12 inch Vinyl Single]

Most of us have lived some inner Tropical F**k Storm over this past yearand a half. Even for a band that's made a career out of crafting songs attunedto political and social crisis, there was a new bleak in the air for Tropical FuckStorm, what the band calls Inchgive-a-F**k fatigue.Inch The third album from theavant-punk quad-aptly titled Deep States-mines familiar ground as well asnew cultural terrains, while digging deeper into the subjective state ofcontemporary panic. While not quite a protest album, Deep States comes complete with Q drops,nods to the January 6th Capitol Riot, a riff on pizzagate, MAGAs squaring offwith Antifas, waterboarded Martians, dangerous cults from Heaven's Gate toThe Shining Path and, not to be outdone, Romeo agents who bed us at nightonly to betray us by morning. We live in a world in which the bizarre hasbecome the normative, and Tropical F**k Storm plumbs that paradox. Thatsaid, the band is far too wary of the self-importance attached to songs in thedidactic mode. InchWe make pop records,Inch frontman Gareth Liddiard says, Inchthatdon't deny we're all in a bit of trouble here.Inch What makes Tropical F**k Storm so great is the intersection between theirdark but satiric storytelling and musical arrangements intent on pervertingreceived canons and wisdoms. These are songs as experiment, advancingand retreating at their own idiosyncratic, deeply unsettling pace. They hangon the slant beat and slide into jazzy, distortion-packed jams so tumultuousthey'd make Charlie Mingus proud. Musically, Deep States goes wherever itwants, riffing on pop, R&B, Talking Heads-style new wave, Delta blues, TomWaits, and some of the band's hip-hop favorites such as Woo-Tang Clan andMissy Elliot. Barriers aren't just broken, they seem to have completely fallenaway.In this present moment, parts of the world are opening up, or trying to. ButTropical F**k Storm is

Rollicking gospel spills out of Harlem's Second Canaan Baptist Church. Langston Hughes wrote lyrics to these songs for his novel and play Tambourines to Glory with a small, independent gospel church chorus just like this in mind. Jobe Huntley set Hughes's lyrics to music.

CLEAR/AQUA BLUE SMOKE. Enter the wonderful world of the amazing Tropical F**k Storm! Submersive Behaviour is our favorite Australian art-punk combo's take on the tried and true Inchcovers recordInch concept. Over the course of 36 minutes, TFS puts their deranged spin on classics by Jimi Hendrix, Middle Aged in the Middle East in the Middle Ages, Men Men Menstration, Compliments to the Chef, and The Stooges. Guest starring their old kangaroo mates and collaborators Dan Kelly, the Bard of Beenleigh and Aaron Cupples, the Earl of East Gippsland on octopus like strings-man-ship, falsetto and apocalyptic vibes.