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Raspberry Moon

    Following the release of their triumphant breakthrough album ‘Cartwheel’, which gained widespread critical acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork (8.4/10 Best New Music) and Stereogum (Top 10 Albums of 2023 - “riveting, restless shoegaze packed with massive hooks”), NYC’s Hotline TNT are back with their best album yet, ‘Raspberry Moon’. The record marks what many are calling 'the next phase in New American Shoegaze'.

    Hotline TNT have toured relentlessly, including US-wide tours with Wednesday and Snail Mail, enduring seemingly endless lineup shifts to become a linchpin of several interconnecting DIY scenes. Whilst ‘Cartwheel’ was largely conceived by frontman Will Anderson (previously of cult indie group Weed), ‘Raspberry Moon’ is very much a full-band effort, which is evident in the album’s all-consuming, rip-roaring sound. For fans of Teenage Fanclub, Dinosaur Jr. and My Bloody Valentine.


    TRACK LISTING

    1. Was I Wrong?
    2. Transition Lens
    3. The Scene
    4. Julia’s War
    5. Letter To Heaven
    6. Break Right
    7. If Time Flies
    8. Candle
    9. Dance The Night Away
    10. Lawnmower
    11. Where U Been?

    Hotline TNT

    Cartwheel

      Will Anderson believes in true love—as both concept and catalyst, aspiration and inspiration. During his 34 years, the Hotline TNT founder and architect has found such love perhaps half-a-dozen times. Each instance has prompted some enormous swing of commitment, like a cross-country move or simply being honest about his budding attraction. It is a hopeful and vulnerable way to exist, a way to ensure maximum bruising during the fall of the breakup. And so far for Anderson, that is how it has always ended, whether the air has slowly seeped out of some once-full balloon or whether it has simply popped, those expanded feelings expelled in an instant.

      This tension is the brain, blood, and beating heart of Cartwheel, Hotline TNT’s second LP and an endlessly romantic testament to reaching for something that slips forever out of grasp. The byproduct of Anderson’s decades-long quest to pin down the surging sound long in his head, Hotline TNT has come to notice in the last four years through loose association with a feverish surge of shoegaze revivalism. And Hotline TNT indeed trucks in the touchstones you might expect: skywriting guitars that bathe in fluorescent hazes of distortion, blown-out drums that pound as though they’re trying to escape a concrete box, and honeyed vocals that try to rise above the chaotic mess in true-to-life mimesis.

      TRACK LISTING

      A-Side
      1. Protocol
      2. I Thought You'd Change
      3. Beauty Filter
      4. History Channel
      5. I Know You
      6. Son In Law
      B-Side
      1. Out Of Town
      2. Maxine
      3. That Was My Life
      4. Spot Me
      5. BMX
      6. Stump


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