see me fall
in loops and lights
no clue.
that’s not me.
Italian shoegazers TIGER! SHIT! TIGER! TIGER! have a name that sounds like if William Blake’s “The Tyger” got locked in a venue bathroom with a broken hand dryer and came out coughing up fuzz pedals. Stephen King also observed that in 2019, he humorously named Satan’s Almighty Penis as ‘today’s best rock group name” and awarded the runner-up to ‘Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger!’. While not a traditional promotional blurb, it still seems to serve as the right kind of literary omen. The trio of Diego Masciotti, Giovanna Vedovati, and Nicola Vedovati has already dragged its analogue racket through SXSW, CMJ, and enough live rooms to make a sensible person ask whether the smoke machine needs a union rep.
With Glue, the new single from the band’s forthcoming album DISSOLVE HERE, they turn the volume inward without tidying up the mess. Thankfully, no linen is audible here.
Glue crawls rather than charges, built on repetition, low-ceiling tension, and a guitar language that seems to have learned manners from DIIV and then spent the weekend with Sonic Youth’s Sister, coming home with bad posture and interesting stains. “that’s not me” and “spin around” circle the room like phrases someone keeps muttering after leaving a party too early, or too late, or perhaps after realizing the party was inside their skull all along. The performance feels primitive in the best sense: few pieces, no chrome, no studio perfume, just bass, drums, guitar, voice, and that lovely feeling of your identity slipping behind the couch.
The lyrics describe a dissociative spiral where identity loosens, perception blurs, and the body seems to sink through haze, light, and repetition. Desire for closeness collides with alienation, leaving the speaker caught in loops of confusion, fading self-recognition, and a need that feels both intimate and destabilizing.
“Glue functions as a raw, primitive document that transitions straight into the wall-of-sound production of our upcoming record,” says the band. “…We wanted to capture that specific, weightless headspace where identity begins to blur into the background, letting the song slowly dissolve into an extended, atmospheric instrumental outro.”
Recorded at VDSS Studio by Filippo Passamonti, DISSOLVE HERE points toward heavier down-tuned fuzz and larger walls of guitar, but Glue earns its place by pulling the frame closer. You can hear The Jesus and Mary Chain in the scuffed romance, The Veldt in the blurred devotional charge, and even a trace of James in the melodic lift that sneaks through the murk wearing a fake mustache.
By the time the instrumental coda stretches out, Glue feels less like a single than a little spell of disappearance, a band sanding itself down to a nerve before the larger album drops its full weight.
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Glue by TIGER! SHIT! TIGER! TIGER!
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