Hotline TNT

NYC's Hotline TNT share new single "Break Right" taken from their new LP "Raspberry Moon" out June 20th on Third Man.

Today, Hotline TNT, the New York-based band fronted by Will Anderson, share the new single, “Break Right”, from their upcoming album Raspberry Moon, out 20th June via Third Man Records.

“Break Right” follows two highly-praised singles “Candle” and “Julia’s War,” and is one of the tentpoles of Raspberry Moon, the band’s most sweeping and compelling album yet. Crucially, it’s also the first built by a full band.

The instrumentation for “Break Right” was first written by the rest of the band, guitarist Lucky Hunter, bassist Haylen Trammel, and drummer Mike Ralston.

The resulting track is lunging and moody, the guitars pulled as tightly as razor wire against motorik drums.  Anderson’s voice is brooding: “Capsize // The organ rides // Moonlight // The guitar hides // If you could suffer my bad night // The music died.”

Reflecting on the track, Will says:

“Some songs hide their meanings behind a facade of metaphors, PR quotes and half-measures. ‘Break Right’ hides nothing. This is the sound of TNT becoming a band.  Every effect has been unplugged, every sample has been deprogrammed, and every emotion has been laid bare. You’ve never heard a Hotline song quite like this before.”

Raspberry Moon was recorded in the studio of modern DIY hero Amos Pitsch. In making Raspberry Moon, Anderson confronted a burgeoning if occasionally difficult belief: Hotline TNT was now a band, and this was the band.

The benefits are self-evident - it is the most texturally rich and energetically nuanced album Hotline TNT has ever made, from start to middle to finish. Some of these 11 songs deal with the sting of regret, of being left or leaving, as Hotline TNT always has. But this is a record animated by a sense of newness and possibility, of pushing back against the global sense that curtains are closing to make room in your own life for new friends. It is perfect music for looking forward, no matter how fucked the past may feel.

It’s a generationally great statement of youthful wistfulness and very adult growth that also happens to be very charming and sometimes funny. Not only did Anderson cement his touring band in the studio, but he also wrote the most direct love songs of his life, winning testaments to a relationship that has seemed to change his perspective on sweetness, sincerity, life itself. Raspberry Moon is an album where Will Anderson gives himself space to fall in love with the world around him and sing as much in songs so loaded with hooks you’ll need to choose which ones to hum at any given moment.

Hotline TNT are in the midst of a North American tour supporting Hippo Campus. Later this summer, they’ll embark on their own US headline tour, with a special rooftop record release show in NYC on June 21st, before heading over to the UK and EU for a full headline tour.

Picture by Graham Tolbert

Tour Dates

Tue May 20th – San Antonio, TX @ Aztec*

Wed May 21st – Austin, TX @ Moody Theater*

Thu May 22nd – Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory*

Sat May 24th – Oklahoma City, OK @ Jones Assembly*

Sun May 25th – Bentonville, AR @ The Momentary*

Tue May 27th – Columbus, OH @ Kemba Live*

Thu May 29th – Grand Rapids, MI @ GLC Live at 20 Monroe*

Fri May 30th – Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed*

Sat May 31st – Minneapolis, MN @ Electric Fetus

Sat May 31st – Minneapolis, MN @ Surly Brewing*

Sun June 1st – Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club (early & late shows) ^ [SOLD OUT]

Tue June 3rd – Buffalo, NY @ Rec Room

Fri June 20th – New York, NY @ Rough Trade Below

Sat June 21st – New York, NY – The Ground % [SOLD OUT]

Sat July 19th – Allentown, PA @ Arrow at Archer Music Hall

Tue July 22nd – Asheville, NC @ Eulogy

Wed July 23rd – Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room at Third Man Records

Thu Aug 14th – Washington, DC @ Atlantis

Fri Aug 15th – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle Backroom

Sat Aug 16th – Athens, GA @ Hendershot’s

Sun Aug 17th – Birmingham, AL @ Firehouse

Tue Aug 19th – Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light

Thu Aug 21st – Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground

Fri Aug 22nd – Detroit, MI @ Third Man Records

Sat Aug 23rd – Toronto, ON @ Longboat Hall

Sun Aug 24th – Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rosa

Tue Aug 26th – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Showcase Lounge

Wed Aug 27th – Poughkeepsie, NY @ Reason & Ruckus

Thu Aug 28th – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair

Fri Aug 29th – Long Island, NY @ VFW Post #7277

Fri Sept 12th – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean

Sun Sept 14th – Minneapolis, MN @ Underground Music Venue

Tue Sept 16th – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge

Wed Sept 17th – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court

Wed Sept 24th – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall

Thu Sept 25th – Templeton, CA @ Club Car Bar

Fri Sept 26th – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction

Sat Sept 27th – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon

Wed Oct 29th – Bergen, NO @ Landmark

Thu Oct 30th – Oslo, NO @ John Dee

Fri Oct 31st – Stockholm, SE @ Hus 7

Sat Nov 1st – Malmo, SE @ Plan B

Sun Nov 2nd – Aarhus, DK @ Voxhall

Tue Nov 4th – Berlin, DE @ Neue Zukunft

Thu Nov 6th – Amsterdam, NL @ Toekomstmuziek

Sun Nov 9th – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club

Tue Nov 11th – Dublin, IE @ Workmans Cellar

Wed Nov 12th – Manchester, UK @ White Hotel

Thu Nov 13th – Glasgow, UK @ Mono

Fri Nov 14th – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds

Sat Nov 15th – Cambridge, UK @ Portland Arms

Sun Nov 16th – Southampton, UK @ Joiners

Mon Nov 17th – Cardiff, UK @ Clwb Ifor Back

Tue Nov 18th – London, UK @ The Garage

Thu Nov 20th – Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere

Fri Nov 21st – Lille, FR @ l’Aeronef

Sat Nov 22nd – Brussels, BE

* w/ Hippo Campus

^ w/ Slow Pulp, Combat Naps & Obsess Tact

% “Raspberry Moon” Release Show

w/ Toner & Starcleaner Reunion