Another Page In The Story Of Absolution Is Manifested In Music With Never Knew From Tulipomania

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Another Page In The Story Of Absolution Is Manifested In Music With Never Knew From Tulipomania

3/4/2025

Tulipomania
Never Knew
Sursumcorda Records

As we get ready for the upcoming Absolution LP from Philadelphia’s electronic alternative duo Tulipomania, the next single is ready with a fantastic, animated video. They’ve enrolled executive producer Howard Thompson to oversee the album’s creation, putting the same energy that enriches Almos Sounds, Electra, and Island into the foundation. He’s worked with bands like Motorhead, Adam and the Ants, Psychedelic Furs, and Billy Bragg. The Absolution album was written in conjunction with a book of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer, with this new single being about trust and betrayal – something that features in the spellbinding story. For Never Knew, the band have put together a perceptive animation that features a lookalike who is mutated and deformed.

An artistic vocal leaps across hurdle bars of abstract melody in a post-punk dream as the rhythm folds in. Haunting backing synths sink through strings and tone as the choppy music beats like an exercised heart. Piano notes fall like rain from guttering as the words dance on sixpences of emotion. The repeating lines about broken trust, hypnotic and mesmerising, a cloudiness builds in the mind as the track whirs in with its charged sensations. Part of a musical drama, a chapter in a strange story, the album is shaping up to be a progressive wonderwork.

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