Once Upon A Time… is the third collaboration between TSRO and Galway-based independent label Blowtorch Records, following up 2022’s acclaimed Dance To The Drum Machine and last year’s Connotations EP. Recorded and mixed between Ireland and Spain throughout all of 2023, it is the most intriguing record yet from the electronic outfit.
“The album took an unusually long time to make”, Smith says of the record. “I wanted to get everything right. It’s got hints of dance-punk, some psychedelia, some melodic verses and some interesting lyrics all over it. I’m so proud of it.”
The lyrical topics vary quite drastically across the album. From album opener, The Chelsea Hotel, with its New York City daydreaming psychedelic imagery to lyrics of a political persuasion such as on the track Once Upon A Time In Palestine.
Once Upon A Time… will be released digitally on all streaming sites worldwide and on a delicious violet transparent 12” vinyl.
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