Hotline TNT, the Brooklyn-based band led by Will Anderson, has announced a new album. Raspberry Moon, the follow-up to 2023’s Cartwheel, lands on June 20 via Third Man Records. It’s led by the soaring, infectious new song ‘Julia’s War’, which tips its head to the label of the same name run by the band’s shoegaze contemporaries in They Are Gutting a Body of Water. It comes paired with a music video directed by Johnny Frohman and featuring Jury Duty star Edy Modica and experimental theater actor Peter Mills Weiss. Check it out below.
Raspberry Moon marks the first Hotline TNT LP created as a full band. While Anderson had previously built songs with a producer piece by piece, this time he welcomed guitarist Lucky Hunter, bassist Haylen Trammel, and drummer Mike Ralston into the studio – or, as a press release puts it, they “wanted in.”
“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…” Anderson said of ‘Julia’s War’. “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.”
“When it came time to cook up the music video, Johnny Frohman created a Full Metal JacketF-style shoegaze bootcamp… It’s not the Marine Corps, it’s Slow Corps,” he added. “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.”
Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Hotline TNT.
Raspberry Moon Cover Artwork:
Raspberry Moon Tracklist:
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?
