From a period of change that included moving across the country and saying goodbye to her former bandmates, Tired Lion’s Sophie Hopes emerges with an album full of catharsis, urgency and truly excellent guitar tone.
Led by songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Sophie Hopes, Australia’s Tired Lion channels the essence of ’90s alt-rock through guitar-driven, gutsy blasts of indie rock. On ‘Breakfast For Pathetics’ Hopes confronts mental health struggles and the search for a new home, but it’s brimming with confidence and blistering in its execution. There’s melody in the melancholy here, with Hopes’ vocals raging triumphant above a wall of sound that tastefully draws on the fuzzed-out indie rock of Archers of Loaf and Pavement with clarity and big, anthemic choruses.
Tired Lion’s ‘Breakfast For Pathetics’ is out via Dew Process/Universal Music on November 20th.
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