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Tulpa - Monster Of The Week (album)
Tulpa - Monster Of The Week (album)
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PRE-ORDER NOW - RELEASE DATE 28 NOVEMBER 2025
Debut album from fantastic new Leeds-based band, Tulpa.
Watch the video for first single "Let's Make a Tulpa" here .
Available on LP and CD. Includes optional MP3 downloads.
EU/EEA customers, please order via https://www.skepwax.bandcamp.com.
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- What is a Tulpa?
- It’s a mythical being manifested into existence through the act of concentrated thought, like an imaginary friend brought to life, but (sometimes) scarier…
"Monster Of The Week" has some of the same qualities. A whole set of loud, catchy, perfectly-crafted pop songs have been conjured into existence - and want to be part of your life. Josie’s hyper-melodic lead vocals are cool and crystalline - but the lyrics are warm and human. The twin guitars create a sonic mesh, a web of textures that traps you, whether you like it or not. And yes, something scarier does lie below the surface. Occasionally the guitars force their way to the front, furious and intense. And sometimes those lyrics aren’t as innocent as they first appear. The danger, just below the surface of the songs, is maybe that’s what makes this album so arresting…
First single ‘Let’s Make A Tulpa!’ is an upbeat crunchy pop song that explodes into a huge chorus, somewhat in a Breeders vein, that will encourage sober people to throw themselves around their living rooms. ‘PSYOPS’ is gentler, but spooky and equally compelling, with echoes of Yo La Tengo: hypnotic in the extreme. ‘Amateur Hour’ is a lilting, gentle confessional. By contrast, ‘Raw Nerve’ is all frenzied guitars, and may remind seasoned listeners of the spiky excitement of Josef K.
Tulpa consist of Josie Kirk (vocals, bass), Daniel Hyndman (guitar), Myles Kirk (guitar) and Mike Ainsley (Drums), and are based in Leeds. Daniel was lead guitarist and songwriter in esteemed post-punk band Mush. Tulpa are nothing like Mush, and yet… all the energy, ambition and inventiveness of that earlier group are still here: it’s just that the creative power has been diverted into the service of a set of pop songs: songs that are in love with melody. Josie Kirk’s irresistible vocal delivery seals the deal. This is a very exciting new band.
It was recorded by Jamie Lockhart (The Cribs, Mush, Drahla), the first to be produced at his new studio at Lamigo Bay, in the Highlands of Scotland.
TRACK LIST
1 THEME
2 TRANSFIXED GAZE
3 PSYOPS
4 PYRO
5 LET’S MAKE A TULPA!
6 MONSTER OF THE WEEK
7 STICK FIGURE BOY
8 YOU’RE LIVING IN A REVERIE
9 AMATEUR HOUR
10 RAW NERVE
11 WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
2 TRANSFIXED GAZE
3 PSYOPS
4 PYRO
5 LET’S MAKE A TULPA!
6 MONSTER OF THE WEEK
7 STICK FIGURE BOY
8 YOU’RE LIVING IN A REVERIE
9 AMATEUR HOUR
10 RAW NERVE
11 WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
TOUR DATES
31 Oct 2025: Sheffield, Delicious Clam - Halloween all-dayer
IG: @wearetulpa | FB: @tulparockband
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