TROPICAL F*CK STORM // Hammer Out New Single ‘Legal Ghost’

Melbourne-based experimental rock supergroup Tropical F*ck Storm have released the title single from their forthcoming third album, Legal Ghost, which lives up to its airy and spicy name.

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Legal Ghost is an experimental slow trip sharing commonalities with Tame Impala and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, while carrying on their trademark sound. Recorded before widespread COVID-19 lockdowns, the song features reverb-saturated guitars, lo-fi percussion, chunky bass lines, and calm spaced-out vocals all building to a psychedelic crescendo.

“This is the first song I ever wrote that I thought was a decent song. Everything before it was just a big tantrum, but this song had a touch of class. When I was putting the Bong Odyssey record together again last year, I heard it and thought it was something that could work well with TFS,” says frontman and guitarist Gareth Liddiard in a statement. Bong Odyssey is the title of Liddiard’s solo retrospective album spanning 1993-1998.

“The original was really cool, but it still sounded more like a sketch of a song and wasn’t quite fully realised, so I took the song to TFS and we fleshed it out a bit,”

After Perth based blues-rock band The Drones went on hiatus, Liddiard and his musical and domestic partner Fiona Kitschin formed Tropical F*ck Storm with Lauren Hammel (High Tension) on drums and Erica Dunn (MOD CON, Harmony, Palm Springs) on guitars, keyboards, and other instruments.

This single is a follow-up to their previous release Suburbiopia, a song that takes on the aesthetics of the Heavens Gate cult while discussing the danger these groups pose to society.

You can listen to Legal Ghost here.