Brighton, UK-based rock ‘n’ roll trio Tigercub have released their new studio album, The Perfume of Decay, available now via Loosegroove Records, the label co-founded by Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, a longtime champion of the band.
The Perfume of Decay includes the heavily percussive new single, “Show Me My Maker,” produced by Josh Evans (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Brandi Carlile).
An official music video is in production and will premiere soon.
“‘Show Me My Maker’ speaks for itself,” says Gossard.
“This song has classic guts. The opening cobra strikes of a guitar riff… it’s seriously in the running for ‘mother of all riffs’ to the nihilistic exultation of the chorus refrain. I love it. Thank you Tigercub.”
SWOMP’s Dana Haggith chatted with front man Jamie Hall recently for an interview. Listen, below:
The Perfume of Decay further includes such explosive singles as “Swoon,” the fever-pitched “Play My Favourite Song,” and the hard-hitting title track, “The Perfume Of Decay,” the latter of which proved a top 30 favorite at Active Rock radio outlets nationwide and is joined by an official companion video streaming now via YouTube.
All three tracks have been met with a wide range of critical applause from such outlets as SPIN, Guitar World, Classic Rock, DIY, The Line of Best Fit, Northern Transmissions, Metal Injection, Vanyaland, Glasse Factory, and Rock Sound, which applauded “The Perfume of Decay” as “‘a stalking, crushing, towering piece of heavy as fuck riffing and howling melody…It is an absolute rip-roarer, full of darkness and devastation, and it shows off the band in their finest light.”
In addition, a fiery full-length concert recording – filmed live in Texas during last November’s US tour alongside Highly Suspect – recently premiered at the official Tigercub YouTube channel, highlighted by fiery versions of both “The Perfume of Decay” and “Play My Favourite Song.”
Hailed by Louder Than War for their “expertly delivered bone crunching riffs and gritty alternative rock,” Tigercub is currently celebrating The Perfume of Decay with a wide-ranging North American tour. The dates – which kicked off Memorial Day Weekend with blazing performances at Daytona Beach, FL’s Welcome To Rockville and Columbus, OH’s Sonic Temple – includes both headline shows and appearances at such festivals and radio-sponsored events as Camden, NJ’s MMR*B*Q 2023 (September 16), Louisville, KY’s Louder Than Life (September 21), Clarkston, MI’s 101.1 WRIF Presents Riff Fest 2023 (September 23), and Sacramento, CA’s Aftershock (October 8). For updates and remaining ticket availability, please visit www.tigercubtigercub.com.
The Perfume of Decay sees Tigercub frontman Jamie Hall drawing the curtains shut to embrace a moody, nocturnal sound that magnificently contrasts overdriven guitars with whispered vocals, tight grooves with shoegazing swells of noise, sonic experimentation with razor-sharp songwriting. Songs such as the swirling “Shadowgraph” offer striking counterpoint and emotional drama, their volume-cranked intensity and lyrical power fueling what is unquestionably Tigercub’s most confident and creatively visionary collection to date.
“The Perfume of Decay is set at night,” says 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.
“I use my songwriting as a form of catharsis,” he adds, “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.”
TIGERCUB – LIVE 2023
JUNE
6 – Cambridge, MA – The Middle East – Upstairs
8 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
9 – Philadelphia, PA – MilkBoy
10 – Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
SEPTEMBER
16 – Camden, NJ – MMR*B*Q 2023 †
21 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life †
23 – Clarkston, MI – 101.1 WRIF Presents Riff Fest 2023 †
OCTOBER
8 – Sacramento, CA – Aftershock †
20 – Brighton, UK – CHALK
21 – Stoke-on-Trent, UK – The Sugarmill
22 – Birmingham, UK – Asylum
23 – Gloucester, UK – Gloucester Guildhall
24 – Oxford, UK – The Bullingdon
26 – Nottingham, UK – Rock City
27 – London, UK – O2 Academy Islington
28 – Milton Keynes, UK – The Craufurd Arms
30 – Bristol, UK – The Fleece
31 – Sheffield, UK – The Leadmill
NOVEMBER
1 – Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK – The Cluny
2 – Glasgow, UK – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
4 – Leeds, UK – The Key Club
5 – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
6 – Cambridge, UK – The Junction
7 – Portsmouth, UK – The Wedgewood Rooms
† FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE