Photo credit: Dave Sausins.

Heavy for the Tropics

Heavy for the Tropics are a bacchanal – an alternative outfit combining indiegirl melodies,  noisy post punk guitars, and a vast array of grooves and rhythms.

HFFT are as their name suggests: emoting the heaviness of modern life through thought provoking lyrics, but as if you are on holiday with music that is energetic and explorative, like raving on Bikini Atoll in stunning desolation….whilst continuously downing cough syrup. Drawing from copious creatives such as The Breeders, Mariana Enriquez, Deerhoof, Dinosaur Jr and Hannah Hoch, HFTT are kaleidoscopic.

PRESS RELEASES

SLIPPER WHIPPINGS PRESS RELEASE:

SLIPPER WHIPPINGS revels in its defiant nature – but is it celebrating tenacity and resilience or a glimpse into a life filled with insatiable rage? Reflect on what drives us to persevere through groovy salsa inspired verses that are confronted with energetic art punk choruses and a syncopated bizzaro head bop break.

Ian says: ‘Slipper Whippings is one of my favourites to play live, you can shake your tail feather to it but it still has that raw punk drive. The middle eight section where the boppy groove is invaded by slices of abrasion always gets the heart rate up. Also, who doesn’t love a mutinous song to make us puff out our chest and prove all our doubters wrong?’

VANITIES PRESS RELEASE:

VANITIES is a surveillance on western society’s beauty business – its promotion of unattainable standards and the disposable nature of individual’s dignity for profit, all set with angular punk underpinnings, an afro-beat influenced groove, and wordplay reminiscent of Lullabys era QOTSA.

It’s not just the consistent aggrandizement of unnatural, spurious, or outright fabrication of beauty. It is also the voracious nature of the industry, our media, and us online in judgement of all who cannot live up to a fictitious standard. 

Ian says: ‘Vanities is one of the first ever tracks we wrote as HFTT and encompasses a lot of our ideology. It has the lively instrumental with its punk, art rock, and psych influence paired with the social commentary in the lyrics delivered with a catchy melody, almost catching you off guard with how surreal some of the words are!’