Tropical Fuck Storm

Pooling their collective talents and know-how acquired from toiling away at the coalface of Australia's psychedelic rock terrain, the art-punk group known as Tropical Fuck Storm formed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 2017 and have been continuously challenging and surprising fans ever since. The four-piece – comprising guitarist and lead vocalist Gareth Liddiard and bassist and lead vocalist Fiona Kitschin – both formerly of The Drones – multi-instrumentalist Erica Dunn (MOD CON, Harmony and Palm Springs) and drummer Lauren Hammel of Australian metallers High Tension – came sauntering onto the scene in 2017 with the angular art-rock of "Chameleon Paint / Mansion Family" and raucous, noisier follow-up "Soft Power / Lower the Baby." Tropical Fuck Storm's debut album, A Laughing Death in Meatspace, arrived in 2018 and set out the band's weirdo rock stall with a mutant guitar record rooted in esoteric subject-matter. In spite of its zaniness (and the band's NSFW name), the album reached Number 25 on Australia's ARIA Charts and very nearly made it onto 2018's Australian Music Prize shortlist. For album number two, Braindrops, the band brought in electronics and more out-there yet thought-provokingly topical themes, from conspiracy theories to fake news. 2021 marked the release of third album Deep States, crafted during the COVID-19 pandemic and a record hinged on social, cultural and political meditations. The band followed with two live albums Goody Goody Grumdrops (2021) and FTS's Inflatable Graveyard (2022), before returning to the studo for their fourth full-length Fairyland Codex, released in 2025.