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- A Laughing Death in Meatspace is the debut album of Melbourne-based supergroup Tropical Fuck Storm, formed by members of The Drones, Palm Springs and High Tension. The band, wishing to step away from the more rock-centric sound that The Drones were known for prior to their final pre-hiatus album Feelin Kinda Free, utilized a range of obscure digital guitar effects, synthesizers, drum machines, and DAW software such as ProTools to create the music. Finished less than eight months after their first few live performances, the speed at which the album was recorded also had a heavy influence on its idiosyncratic sound, which combines genres such as punk blues, art punk, psychedelic rock and noise rock with influences from pop and electronic music. Written by Liddiard with contributions from other members, the lyrics have been described as apocalyptic and darkly humorous; tackling subjects such as technological advancement, political polarization, socioeconomic inequality, xenophobia, culture wars and many others. The album title links a Silicon Valley slang for the physical world with the neurodegenerative disorder of kuru found in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Four singles were released from the album over late 2017 and early 2018. Music videos for each of them (including the track "The Future of History") were also made available on the band's official YouTube channel. Shortly after its release, the band signed with Joyful Noise Recordings, who were responsible for distributing the album in the US. The album enjoyed a "generally favorable reception" internationally, garnering praise for both its raw and unusual style as well as its lyricism. Several noteworthy musicians such as Thalia Zedek and Britt Daniel have also expressed their love for the album since its release, and it went on to appear on numerous year-end lists from publications around the world. (en)
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- *Punk blues
*art punk
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*post-punk (en)
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- A Laughing Death in Meatspace track listing (en)
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- * Tropical Fuck Storm
* Mistletone
* Joyful Noise (en)
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- A Laughing Death in Meatspace (en)
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- [The song] is basically about the real word; ordinary life, and how drab and featureless it seems until you write it down, and then you see it's pretty wild. They say that good books make shit movies and shit books make good movies. So if you're depressed and you feel like your life resembles a shit book, congratulations. (en)
- My dad grew up in Rio, he was born in Rio. My best friend who was in the Drones [Rui Pereira], he grew up in Rio. My grandma comes from Buenos Aires. They're all English, but English migrants to Brazil. There's a lot of Rio in me in a way. And we went there last year and hung out for a bit. It's a city that's part of my family story. It has an effect on me. [...] It's all just subconscious stuff. I really haven't had time to reflect on that, or any of the songs really that much. [...] So “Rubber Bullies” probably has a lot of shit that's personal, but I haven't gotten around to figuring out. (en)
- The explosions in "Two Afternoons," "A Laughing Death," and "Rubber Bullies" are glorious and frightening, so big they don't feel quite real, but there's a story trying to climb out of the noise, carried by Liddiard's weariness, his uncynical fatalism, but shaped by the counter-vocals of Kitschin and Dunn. Liddiard is responding instinctively to the war they are all describing; they are thinking about it. Soon you may begin to hear him as the background singer, and the women in the background as the leads. The balance shifts inside the songs, back and forth, back and forth, and you can feel as if this is what history sounds like as it's being written. (en)
- America is the cop of the world. Or the boss of the world since War World II [sic]. A lot of people go “Fuck America, fuck them, they're in charge.” Thing is, you're not perfect but, ok would you prefer to have China in charge? Or Saudi Arabia? Or Russia? [...] It's the least of a bunch of fucked options, having the US in charge. Mainly what the end part of that song is about, “Bye-bye scarecrow” it's taken from The Wizard of Oz but the scarecrow is the USA. Scarecrows are useful, they're not perfect, but they're fucking better than a lot of other options. [...] With Trump, turning inwards, turning the country inwards and abandoning the rest of us to China and Russia. That's the scariest thing, that frightens me more than Trump starting a nuclear war with North Korea or whatever. It's more just being abandoned to fucking Russia. Russia would have us if they could. Only reason they didn't turn the west into a bunch of communists is because we nuked Japan. We didn't nuke Japan because we wanted to necessarily finish their war, we were showing Russia what we could do. It's awful. The world is an awful place. That's what kept the USA in charge for fuckin’ 75 years. And now Trump’s going to throw that all away. It's scary, scary times. (en)
- Teenage Engineering OP-1 keys and drum machines. Anything made by Eventide. Granular Effects stompboxes. Lots of weird obscure iPhone drum machine apps. Contact mics. Tea towels gaffed onto all the drums. Magic mushrooms. (en)
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- Gareth Liddiard on the lyrics to "Soft Power". (en)
- Greil Marcus on the album's sound. (en)
- Gareth Liddiard on the gear & equipment that inspired the album's sound (en)
- Gareth Liddiard on the song "You Let My Tyres Down" (en)
- Gareth Liddiard on the Brazilian references in the final stanza of "Rubber Bullies". (en)
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- A Laughing Death in Meatspace (en)
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- The Future of History (en)
- Two Afternoons (en)
- You Let My Tyres Down (en)
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- A Laughing Death in Meatspace is the debut album of Melbourne-based supergroup Tropical Fuck Storm, formed by members of The Drones, Palm Springs and High Tension. The band, wishing to step away from the more rock-centric sound that The Drones were known for prior to their final pre-hiatus album Feelin Kinda Free, utilized a range of obscure digital guitar effects, synthesizers, drum machines, and DAW software such as ProTools to create the music. Finished less than eight months after their first few live performances, the speed at which the album was recorded also had a heavy influence on its idiosyncratic sound, which combines genres such as punk blues, art punk, psychedelic rock and noise rock with influences from pop and electronic music. Written by Liddiard with contributions from oth (en)
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