Single evaluate / Video Premiere / Album Teaser
Tulpa
Let’s Make A Tulpa!
DL/stream solely from the forthcoming album Monster Of The Week out on 28 November 2025 on all codecs
Tulpa are very new: nothing has been launched up till now. Regardless of this, they have been invited to report a reside BBC6 Music session for Marc Riley & Gideon Coe and have supported Throwing Muses, Pale Blue Eyes and Bug Membership… But they’re releasing their debut album on none-more-independent label Skep Wax. If you hear the debut single you’ll realise why, says Ged Babey.
As a result of it’s genuinely improbable. A traditional debut single.
The phrase/cliche is ‘arriving fully-formed’.
On first viewing of the video I assumed they have been American. (And oddly Skep Wax’s American signings sound very English.)
A debut single that’s SO good they may spend the remainder of their profession making an attempt to match-up to or higher it.
It looks like the primary time you heard the Sundays or Lush or The Breeders or Veruca Salt or Skating Polly….
Feminine-lead indie-pop, post-punk, grunge-pop, pure-pop, shoegaze, dream-pop, I dunno, name it whatcha need, it’s simply fabulous.
Let’s Make A Tulpa is an upbeat crunchy pop track that explodes into an enormous refrain, considerably in a Breeders vein, that may encourage sober folks to throw themselves round their dwelling rooms.
– What’s a Tulpa?
– It’s a legendary being manifested into existence by way of the act of concentrated thought, like an imaginary buddy delivered to life, however (typically) scarier…
Tulpa include Josie Kirk (vocals, bass), Daniel Hyndman (guitar), Myles Kirk (guitar) and Mike Ainsley (Drums), and are based mostly in Leeds. Daniel was lead guitarist and songwriter in esteemed post-punk band Mush. Tulpa are nothing like Mush, and but… all of the vitality, ambition and inventiveness of that earlier group are nonetheless right here: it’s simply that the artistic energy has been diverted into the service of a set of pop songs: songs which might be in love with melody. Josie Kirk’s irresistible vocal supply seals the deal. This can be a very thrilling new band.
That was the Press Launch – almost certainly written by Rob and Amelia from Skep Wax (Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Catenary Wires and so on…) They are surely folks with a ardour for the music and a disdain for the Music Enterprise – so this isn’t ‘hype’ on any scale that entails cash or nepotism and all that malarkey.
The band identify/phrase Tulpa triggered my curiosity from the off because it first entered post-punk vocabulary on Journal’s 1978 Actual Life album with monitor two ‘My Tulpa‘.
It’s an excellent phrase, bizarre idea and now a really cool band. I can’t wait to listen to the entire Monster Of The Week album.
Tour dates in poster under
All phrases Ged Babey with Press Launch content material in italics
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