There’s been a noisy rock and roll racket emanating out of the English town of Brighton lately, and soon American audiences will find out just what all the fuss is about. Rising trio Tigercub have unleashed a dynamic new self-aware single called “Play My Favorite Song,” and it’s the latest spiked taste of the group’s forthcoming album The Perfume of Decay.
The LP hits June 2 via Stone Gossard’s Loosegroove Records, just after Tigercub appear in May at North American festivals like Daytona Beach’s Welcome To Rockville and Columbus’ Sonic Temple, and a few days before they play The Middle East in Cambridge.
“The Perfume of Decay is set at night,” says Tigercub frontman and ringleader Jamie Hall. “It was written at night, I recorded all the vocals at night, and it is at night when my thoughts race and uneasiness pours through me like running water. Under the glimmer of moonlight, my apprehension ebbs and flows like the tide and it doesn’t stop until the morning. Perfume is a diary of my emotional journey from dusk to dawn, an anxiety-fueled voyage through the storm. Lyrically, at points, it is almost a stream of consciousness. I sat up late and wrote the words down as they flashed before my eyes.
Hall adds: “I use my songwriting as a form of catharsis, a tool to examine my anxiety and insecurity about growing older and how those emotions seem to lead me towards turmoil. I pour those feelings into my lyrics and only then can I move on from them.”
Get into the velvet crunch of “Play My Favorite Song” below via Spotify, and check out all Tigercub’s upcoming North American dates. Outside of the festival gigs, it’s clear they won’t be playing intimate rooms like this much longer.
Tigercub 2023 North American Dates:
April 29: Austin, TX – Empire Control Room & Garage
May 1: Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge
May 2: Costa Mesa, CA – The Wayfarer
May 3: Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
May 5: San Francisco, CA – Cafe Du Nord
May 7: Seattle, WA – The Crocodile’s Madame Lou’s
May 8: Boise, ID – Neurolux
May 10: Colorado Springs, CO The Black Sheep
May 11: Denver, CO – HQ – Denver
May 12: Lincoln, NE – Bourbon Theatre – Rye Room
May 15: Covington, KY – Madison Live
May 17: Atlanta, GA – The Earl
May 19: Daytona, FL – Welcome to Rockville
May 25: Nashville, TN – The End
May 26: Chicago, IL – GMan Tavern
May 27: Maryland Heights, MO – KPNT Pointfest †
May 28: Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival †
May 31: Pittsburgh, PA – Club Café
June 6: Cambridge, MA – The Middle East Upstairs
June 8: New York, NY – The Bowery Ballroom
June 9: Philadelphia, PA – MilkBoy
June 10: Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery