THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “While making Hotline TNT’s new album Raspberry Moon, frontman Will Anderson confronted a burgeoning if occasionally difficult belief: Hotline TNT were now a band, and this was it.
These benefits are self-evident on Raspberry Moon — it is the most texturally rich and energetically nuanced album Hotline TNT have made, from start to middle to finish. Some of these 11 songs deal with the sting of regret, of being left or leaving, as Hotline TNT always have. But this is a record animated by a sense of newness and possibility, of pushing back against the global sense that curtains are closing to make room in your own life for new friends. It is perfect music for looking forward, no matter how fucked the past may feel.
It’s a great statement of youthful wistfulness and very adult growth that also happens to be very charming and sometimes funny. Not only did Anderson cement his touring band in the studio, but he also wrote the most direct love songs of his life, winning testaments to a relationship that has seemed to change his perspective on sweetness, sincerity, life itself. Raspberry Moon is an album where Anderson gives himself space to fall in love with the world around him and sing as much in songs so loaded with hooks you’ll need to choose which ones to hum at any given moment.”
