Band : Tribute To Nothing

Album title : Breathe How You Want To Breathe

Label : Lockjaw

Distributor : Progressive Publicity

Release date : 14/04/2008

Release : CD

Holy she-ite...wadda mistake ta ma-ke! While looking up the necessary additional intel needed to review this album which, as I could make out from the info-sheet delivered with out promo copy, is to appear through Lockjaw on April 17th , I found out that the album is first released on the European continent (including Scandinavia) through Ass-Card Records on March 17th , meaning you should've gotten this review a month earlier!

Ah well, can't turn back the clock...at least not literally, because in the mind of course we can, or like in the case of trying to tell the history of a band's career. In the case of TNT that is somewhat difficult, because they have completely rebuilt their site around the new year in attendance of the new album. I cannot therefore give you exact data, but Worchester (UK) based quartet TNT (current line-up consists of singer/ guitarist Samuel Turner, guitarist/ singer Kris Stammer, bassist/ singer/ keyboardist Jim Turner, and drummer Ben Turner)   is currently releasing their 6 th full-length (in order of appearance debut album Wrench was followed by This Is Freedom?, 50,000 Watts Of Goodwill, Act Without Words, and How Many Times Do We Live?), having also issued a total of two EPs, an 8-track mini-CD, and a split (mini-)CD with Three Minute Poetry. Since their last full-length, TNT filled 2006 and 2007 with numerous gigs, festivals and gigs throughout the UK and Europe, sharing tour busses with the likes of Boysetsfire, Hot Water Music, No Use For A Name, Sounds Like Violence, The Donots, and others. Besides doing impressive appearances at such festivals as Berlinova and Köln's Ringfest, the band also played at the London gig of Deconstruction, Europe's biggest Punk Rock tour, and features on the top-selling DVD from the tour.

In the beginning days the band's style was far more geared towards an alternative Hardcore than these days, and in fact the current album is possibly the most "progressive", their most "anthemic Rock" ever. The band itself calls their music "...Intense, chaotic Post-Hardcore...a mix between Post Hardcore, PunkRock and old school Progressive Rock...". If you've never heard the band before, you might be able to imagine what the band sounds like when knowing that they cite bands like Fugazi, At The Drive In, Yes, Drive Like Jehu, Brainiac, Pink Floyd and Hot Water Music being cited as influences on this album. But you would have to also imagine the couple of more mellow moments added to the somewhat gritty but melodic and vocally multi-layered Punk Rock. If the description you got above still gets you wondering, maybe you simply better surf to myspace.com/tributetonothing, where the band posted 3 songs off the new album alongside 2 songs off the previous album. Apparently, there's a vocal guest role for one Lucy Harvey-Mills (I only found info on a Lucy Harvey , who's a British visual artist. Possibly not the same person, eh?), but damn me if I can find out where or when she comes into the picture.

Of course the band has already started off on a short tour of Austria and Germany, a tour which runs untill April 5th, and for which they've taken Klay in tow as support. During May the band would be teaming up with other Lockjaw bands for a tour throughout the UK. Vinyl addicts be warned that the album will also be issued in your favourite sound carrier (through Ass-Card).

87/100

Tony.