Hotline TNT released their blown-out sophomore record, Cartwheel, in 2023 and went on a lengthy tour in support of those songs. Today, the shoegaze four-piece just announced that their next album, Raspberry Moon, is on the way, out June 20 via Third Man Records.
They also shared “Julia’s War,” whose title references They Are Gutting A Body of Water’s Philly imprint. Of the song, vocalist/guitarist Will Anderson says, “In a world of half-hearted hooks and buried-in-the-mix vocals, we had to muster the courage to do what the rest of the shoegaze community could not… We looked out to the stadium and reassured the audience: Our voices, together, will be heard. You’ve never heard a TNT chorus this straightforward. When we stress-tested it during the writing process, the ‘try not to sing along challenge’ came back with a 100% fail rate.”
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The song comes with a video directed by Johnny Frohman, where the band (and members of They Are Gutting A Body of Water) participate in a “Full Metal Jacket-style shoegaze boot camp.” They march with their instruments, crawl under their pedals, and do pull-ups on a whammy bar, which is pretty ingenious. “It’s not the Marine Corps — it’s Slow Corps,” Anderson continues. “Edy Monica, Dan Licata, and an ensemble cast of NYC comedy underworld alts rounded out the platoon and drafted us into a world where we could enlist in a strict regimen of pedalboard assembly and underwater vocal lessons.”
See the video for “Julia’s War,” plus the LP artwork and tracklist, below.
Hotline TNT – Raspberry Moon tracklist
- “Was I Wrong?”
- “Transition Lens”
- “The Scene”
- “Julia’s War”
- “Letter to Heaven”
- “Break Right”
- “If Time Flies”
- “Candle”
- “Dance the Night Away”
- “Lawnmower”
- “Where U Been?”