Photo Credit: Jamie Wdziekonski
Australia’s Tropical Fuck Storm have announced their new 7-inch Legal Ghost, due for release on 11th September 2020 via Joyful Noise Recordings. The two tracks were recorded at Dodgy Brothers Studio in Central Victoria before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the band to stay indoors.
The title-track Legal Ghost first came to light in the 90’s and originally appeared on Gareth Liddiard and original Drones member Rui Pereira’s four-track recording Bong Odyssey, which was written and recorded pre-Drones.
“This is the first song I ever wrote that I thought was actually a decent song,” Liddiard explains. “Everything before it was kinda a big tantrum, but this song had a touch of class. When I was putting together the Bong Odyssey record a few years ago, I heard it again and thought this was something that could work really well with TFS, although the original was really cool, 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.”
The B-side of Legal Ghost is a version of Talking Heads‘ Heaven, which was also recorded on the same four-track record over twenty years ago. The song features guest performers Don Don and H’y, on pedal steel and violin, respectively.
Check out Legal Ghost below!
Tropical Fuck Storm‘s Legal Ghost 7-inch is available to pre-order HERE.
