TROPICAL TRASH - "UFO Rot" LP

Tropical Trash - UFO Rot LP (Load, 2015) "What fuels Tropical Trash, ultimately, is a raw, generous anxiety—borne of youth, borne of aimlessness, borne of limitlessness—so communicable that it’s nearly anthemic. If that seems slight, it’s certainly worth remembering that cults have been built on much less." - Raymond Cummings (Pitchfork) "Lo! This is the greatest American rock record on Load since Thee Hydrogen Terrors full-length that came 16 years prior. But where that band put forth an image of harried professionalism coming loose at the edges, before giving into a real truth teller like “I Got a Plate in My Head,” Tropical Trash comes off as the tinfoil hat eggshells you’d expect, unhireable and not really on the market anyhow. I saw a picture of their drummer where he had those pretzels shaped like grids stuck against his eye sockets like monocles, so you tell me. A booklet included with the record speaks of “Jazz Fry,” an internal concept buried in an impenetrable spray of words