Primarily based on identify alone, it is manner too simple to confuse the wonderful Seattle/Tacoma fuzz-pop band TV Star with TV Woman. That is unlucky, since TV Woman are a giant band who sound nothing like TV Star. The members of TV Star come from Pacific Northwest DIY underground circles — Supercrush frontman Mark Palm performs bass in TV Star, for example — however they make one thing far more crushed-out and shimmery. Now that TV Star are lastly able to drop an album, band-name distinctions will hopefully get a lot simpler quickly.
TV Star acquired began over the pandemic, they usually’ve launched a handful of wonderful singles and EPs, just like the 2024 Spiral XP collab TVXP. Their music “Texas Relation” got here out final month, and now they’re asserting the long-awaited full-length Music For Heads. Hey! We’re heads! It is for us!
TV Star’s new single “Out Of My Bag” jangles and shambles with a joyous hair-shaking vitality. In a press launch, the band says that it is their homage to Madchester and Britpop. I can positively hear that, however I can even hear echoes of Pacific Northwest storage rock and energy pop in there, too. It is an ideal mixture. TV Star’s personal Che Hise-Gattone co-directed the music’s video with Solar Spots’ Kailey Morales. Try that clip and the Music For Heads tracklist beneath.
TRACKLIST:
01 “The Package deal”
02 “Actuality Cheque”
03 “Two Revolutions”
04 “Texas Relation”
05 “Greener Pastures”
06 “For Heads”
07 “Lodestar”
08 “Koresh Me Down”
09 “Out Of My Bag”
10 “Strawberry Hero”
“Koresh Me Down” is a tremendous pun. Music For Heads is out 4/24 on Father/Daughter Information; pre-order it right here. TV Star will play 4/24 at Seattle’s Sundown Tavern and 4/25 at Tacoma’s Store Present.
