Australian punk rockers Trophy Eyes who last summer released their latest album, ‘Suicide and Sunshine’, have announced a UK headline tour for April.
“We’re pumped to tour the UK and Europe again,” say the band. “We haven’t been to a lot of these cities in over five years, so it’s great to have the chance to get reacquainted. It’s special to us to be able to travel back and perform for the people who have supported us and listened to us all these years. I can’t wait to share that moment together. We’ve only ever been to Europe in winter too, so I’m especially excited to travel through these beautiful old cities with the sun on our backs. Playing our brand new album every night, at this point, is just a bonus.”
Upcoming UK dates:
05 April – BIRMINGHAM Asylum
06 April – LEEDS Project House
07 April – GLASGOW Cathouse
09 April – MANCHESTER Rebellion
10 April – BRISTOL The Fleece
11 April – LONDON O2 Islington Academy
13 April – PORTSMOUTH Takedown Festival
Just like the title Suicide and Sunshine, Trophy Eyes’ fourth album is about contrast. About light and dark. About beauty and tragedy. About the full spectrum of life, as told through the eyes of frontman John Floreani.
“It’s the human experience,” says Floreani. “What we experience and how we navigate it. The millions of tiny flashes of light that are memories and thoughts and feelings and smells, all those little moments make up a lifetime. They’re beautifully tragic because they don’t mean anything to anyone, and on the scale of everything in the universe don’t mean a damn thing. But it’s so beautiful that they happen in the first place.”
If it sounds like Suicide and Sunshine is an album of Very Big Ideas, it is. They are, however, told through the lens of the everyday, each song a different “flash of light” from the frontman’s life.
Floreani’s willingness to dive so deeply into the most personal parts of his life is matched by the band’s desire to explore the very boundaries of the hardcore genre. Alongside Floreani’s impassioned vocals, drummer Blake Caruso’s insistent rhythms, Jeremy Winchester’s unflinching bass and the powerful guitars – handled by Floreani, producer Shane Edwards and former guitarist Andrew Hallett – the album is rich with anthemic hooks, dark modern pop, electronic flourishes courtesy of co-producer Fletcher Matthews, and atmospheric, swirling synths.
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