Today, Hotline TNT — the New York based project fronted by Will Anderson — unveils a new video for ‘Stump’ off of their 2023 album, Cartwheel, out now on Third Man Records. Animated by Matt Carignan with sound design from Emil Bognar-Nasdor, the video cuts between footage of the band performing the track alongside the band on a farm, all framed as if the band is performing inside of a TV cartoon. According to Anderson, “This song came to be in just one afternoon when I was reflecting on a game of cards I played with my family in Minnesota. I’m glad we finally made a video for it because the man who seduced us all with the biggest Billboard smash of the 20th century (Rob Thomas) posted the track on his Instagram story and that was all I needed to know we made a hit.”
Watch the video for ‘Stump’ below.
In addition to the video, Hotline TNT have announced headline dates Stateside alongside a Spring / Summer 2024 EU tour. Tickets will go on-sale January 26th.
Catch the band on tour in Europe on the following dates:
Sat. Apr. 27 – Nijmegen, NL @ Oranjepop Festival
Sun. Apr. 28 – Rotterdam, NL @ Roodkapje
Mon. Apr. 29 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Noord
Tue. Apr. 30 – Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree
Wed. May 1 – Hamburg, DE @ Molotow Skybar
Thu. May 2 – Cologne, DE @ Bumann & Sohn
Fri. May 3 – Paris, FR @ L’International
Sat. May 4 – Brussels, BE @ Les Nuits Botanique
Mon. May 6 – Toulouse, FR @ Le Ravelin
Tue. May 7 – Barcelona, ES @ Sala Vol
Wed. May 8 – Madrid, ES @ Wurlitzer Ballroom
Thu. May 9 – Donosti, ES @ Dabadaba
Fri. May 10 – Oviedo, ES @ La Salvaje
Sat. May 11 – Vigo, ES @ Radar Estudios
Cartwheel is the band’s follow-up to Nineteen In Love, a record that’s influence has spread through fervent word-of-mouth these last couple of years. Hotline TNT toured relentlessly, enduring seemingly endless lineup shifts to become a linchpin of several interconnecting DIY scenes. Their audience steadily ballooned, with Nineteen in Love becoming a coveted LP. Cartwheel, however, transcends those scene associations to become something greater—a classic encapsulation of youthful ardor, fading into adulthood’s grim acceptance. It is a beautiful, radical, and engrossing record about trying to find what most of us have not yet attained: fulfillment.
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