Less than a year after releasing their debut album Party Time, TVOD, the Brooklyn six-piece are already back with news of its follow-up, The Farm, due October 16 via Mothland, alongside the release of snarling new single Rerun.
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If Party Time introduced TVOD as one of New York’s most chaotic underground prospects, Rerun sounds like the band actively trying to claw their way out of their own skin. Built around a stubborn bassline, twitching guitars and a chorus that arrives like a shopping trolley smashing through fluorescent supermarket doors at 2am, the track channels burnout, frustration and self-destruction into something strangely euphoric.
The band describe the song as being about “desperately needing to quit your day job, move away from your hometown, and start a fresh self-destructive spiral,” which feels perfectly aligned with TVOD’s entire aesthetic universe: half dance-punk liberation, half slow-motion nervous breakdown.
Recorded in Leeds with Danny Blackburn of Adult DVD, The Farm reportedly pushes the group’s post-punk instincts further without sanding down the raw volatility that made them such a word-of-mouth obsession in the first place. Their sound still carries traces of mid-2000s indie sleaze and downtown art-rock, but TVOD avoid falling into nostalgia cosplay. There’s too much abrasion, too much humour and too much genuine anxiety pulsing through the songs for that.
The album’s title and imagery pull heavily from Animal Farm, with portions of the record written on a farm in Neufchâtel-en-Bray, France. But beneath the absurdist imagery and Orwellian references sits a very contemporary unease. The Farm explores collapsing social contracts, hollow authority and the fantasy of escaping modern life entirely, only to realise the rot has followed you there too.
That tension between satire and collapse has become central to TVOD’s appeal. Across relentless touring in the US, UK and Europe, the band have built a reputation for live shows that feel equal parts party and public nervous episode, leaving venues sweaty, frantic and slightly disoriented. Festivals including SXSW, End of the Road Festival and Les Trans Musicales have already embraced them, while critics have increasingly positioned TVOD as one of the few modern guitar bands capable of reviving dance-punk’s sense of danger without simply photocopying the past.
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Diorama by Tyler Wright
Photograph by Briana Balducci
