Black Vinyl
total tommy’s anticipated debut album, bruises is set for release November 29th on [PIAS]
Recordings. The album includes the acclaimed singles, microdose, REAL, Adeline and Losing Out that total tommy has released over previous months. Despite only releasing standalone singles to date, critical support has been overwhelming: NME, i-D, The Times, Clash, DIY, The Line Of Best Fit have all lent praise. And at radio there has been sustained and continued support from triple j, Radio X, BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6Music.
The last few years for Jess Holt, the Sydney-based artist better known as total tommy, have been the kind where everything turns on its head and you come out of the other side a near-unrecognisable person. Even when the change is for the better, at some point you have to take stock of the bruises you’ve accumulated and the ones you’ve left on others too.
Out of this comes total tommy’s debut album, a collection of scuzzy bedroom-rock anthems appropriately titled bruises. Written during a period in which she went through a breakup, moved cities, came out as queer and met her now-wife, it sees Holt’s bold, raw and witty voice on full display for the first time.