Braindrops is the follow-up album from Tropical Fuck Storm’s 2018 debut A Laughing Death In Meatspace and similarly, written and recorded in the bands home ‘Dodgy Brothers Studio’ in regional Victoria with Mike Delandes.

“I’ve invented fake news as a genre of music,” Gareth Liddiard observes with a laugh. He’s talking about “Maria 63”, the closing track on Tropical Fuck Storm’s Braindrops.  The song takes aim at the once-marginalized alt-right conspiracy theories that now seem to be a driving force behind the rise of fascism in global politics. “It’s about a Mossad agent traveling to Buenos Aires to assassinate Maria Orsic, a Nazi witch who telepathically got the blueprints for warp drive engines from aliens,” Liddiard shares.

“It may be the most stupid song ever written,” Liddiard jokes. He’s wrong, “Maria 63” is emblematic of Tropical Fuck Storm’s keen ability to mine the extreme edge of pop culture’s periphery for potent musical and conceptual spice. Braindrops overflows with compelling sounds and visions that reflect the often dark and fractured reality of life on planet Earth as we hurtle toward environmental and social decay at a frighteningly rapid clip.

“Everything we do, we try to do it in a weird way. The whole album is full of weird beats, and just weird shit everywhere,” Liddiard explains. He cites Doc at the Radar Station-era Captain Beefheart as a key sonic touchstone, and Braindrops certainly shares the Captain’s penchant for pounding abstract grooves. Tropical Fuck Storm have achieved a uniquely off-kilter sound on Braindrops. Liddiard partly credits this to the group’s use of unconventional equipment, “We use lots of techno gear to make rock and roll because rock and roll gear is boring, and all sounds like Led Zeppelin.”

Tropical Fu*k Storm2019 Australian Braindrops Album Tour

Fri Oct 4                       Byron Bay Brewery                                  Byron Bay             NSW 
With special Guests Pinch Points and All The Weathers

Sat Oct 5                       Triffid                                                         Brisbane               QLD 
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Sun Oct 6                      Solbar                                                         Maroochydore   QLD 
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Thur Oct 10                  The Metro                                                     Sydney               NSW 
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Fri Oct 11                       Kambri ANU                                               Canberra              ACT 
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Sat Oct 12                     UOW Uni Bar                                              Wollongong         NSW 
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Thur Oct 17                  Altar                                                              Hobart                 TAS 
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Sun Oct 20                    Torquay Hotel                                             Torquay                VIC 
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Thu Oct 24                    The Gov                                                       Adelaide              SA 
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Fri Oct 25                      Rock Rover                                                 Perth                    WA       
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