New York City Hotline TNT have today shared their new single, Break Right, the third single from the forthcoming record Raspberry Moon, out 20th June via Third Man Records. It follows two highly praised singles, Candle and Julia’s War, and is one of the tentpoles of Raspberry Moon. Rasberry Moon is also the first album built by a full band, while previous records were largely written by frontman Will Anderson. The instrumentation for Break Right was first written by the rest of the band – guitarist Lucky Hunter, bassist Haylen Trammel, and drummer Mike Ralston. The resulting track is lunging and moody, the guitars pulled as tightly as razor wire against motorik drums.
Speaking about the track, Will says: “Some songs hide their meanings behind a facade of metaphors, PR quotes and half-measures. ‘Break Right’ hides nothing. This is the sound of TNT becoming a band. Every effect has been unplugged, every sample has been deprogrammed, and every emotion has been laid bare. You’ve never heard a Hotline song quite like this before.”
Raspberry Moon was recorded in the studio of Tenement guitarist and vocalist Amos Pitsch. In making Raspberry Moon, Anderson confronted a burgeoning if occasionally difficult belief: Hotline TNT was now a band, and this was the band. The benefits are self-evident – it is the most texturally rich and energetically nuanced album Hotline TNT has ever made, from start to middle to finish. Some of these 11 songs deal with the sting of regret, of being left or leaving, as Hotline TNT always has.
It’s a generationally great statement of youthful wistfulness and very adult growth that also happens to be very charming and sometimes funny. Not only did Anderson cement his touring band in the studio, but he also wrote the most direct love songs of his life, winning testaments to a relationship that has seemed to change his perspective on sweetness, sincerity, and life itself. Raspberry Moon is an album where Will Anderson gives himself space to fall in love with the world around him and sing as much in songs so loaded with hooks you’ll need to choose which ones to hum at any given moment.
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Hotline TNT are in the midst of a North American tour supporting Hippo Campus. Later this summer, they’ll embark on their own US headline tour, with a special rooftop record release show in NYC on June 21st, before heading over to the UK and EU for a full headline tour.
EU/UK Tour Dates:
- Wed Oct 29th – Bergen, NO @ Landmark
- Thu Oct 30th – Oslo, NO @ John Dee
- Fri Oct 31st – Stockholm, SE @ Hus 7
- Sat Nov 1st – Malmo, SE @ Plan B
- Sun Nov 2nd – Aarhus, DK @ Voxhall
- Tue Nov 4th – Berlin, DE @ Neue Zukunft
- Thu Nov 6th – Amsterdam, NL @ Toekomstmuziek
- Sun Nov 9th – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
- Tue Nov 11th – Dublin, IE @ Workmans Cellar
- Wed Nov 12th – Manchester, UK @ White Hotel
- Thu Nov 13th – Glasgow, UK @ Mono
- Fri Nov 14th – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
- Sat Nov 15th – Cambridge, UK @ Portland Arms
- Sun Nov 16th – Southampton, UK @ Joiners
- Mon Nov 17th – Cardiff, UK @ Clwb Ifor Back
- Tue Nov 18th – London, UK @ The Garage
- Thu Nov 20th – Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere
- Fri Nov 21st – Lille, FR @ l’Aeronef
- Sat Nov 22nd – Brussels, BE
* w/ Hippo Campus
^ w/ Slow Pulp, Combat Naps & Obsess Tact
% “Raspberry Moon” Release Show w/ Toner & Starcleaner Reunion
Photo credit: Graham Tolbert