TTSSFU — Blown
Released August 29, 2025
From Manchester, UK
Shoegaze
With Blown, Manchester’s TTSSFU unleash a record that fully embraces the immensity and emotional sweep of modern shoegaze. The album drapes itself in walls of sound, where cascading guitars, crushing distortion, and ethereal vocals collide in a haze that is at once overwhelming and strangely comforting.
Each track feels like a tidal surge, balancing sheer sonic force with fragile moments of introspection. Beneath the roar, there’s a core of vulnerability — lyrics that whisper through the storm, melodies that flicker even as the distortion swells to deafening heights. Blown doesn’t just lean on shoegaze tradition; it stretches it, pulling the listener into a dense, immersive atmosphere where time seems to dissolve.
Rooted in Manchester’s long lineage of guitar-driven innovation, TTSSFU manage to carve out their own identity, capturing both the grit of their environment and the expansiveness of dreamlike escape. It’s music that asks you to lose yourself — to be swallowed whole by the sound until all that remains is the emotion it leaves behind.
Blown is a testament to shoegaze at its most uncompromising: immersive, cathartic, and impossible to ignore.
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