bruises total tommy

• 1 ADELINE 02:48
• 2 Losing Out 03:07
• 3 REAL 03:23
• 4 SODA 02:47
• 5 Ghost 02:38
• 6 ribs 03:03
• 7 microdose 02:59
• 8 SPIDER 02:41
• 9 Plus One 02:21
• 10 Amsterdam 02:36
• 11 girlfriend 03:24
• 12 Shark Attacks 02:43
• Total Runtime 34:30

Info for bruises

total tommy’s anticipated debut album, bruises is set for release November 29th on [PIAS] Recordings. The album includes the acclaimed singles, microdose, REAL, Adeline and Losing Out that total tommy has released over previous months. Despite only releasing standalone singles to date, critical support has been overwhelming: NME, i-D, The Times, Clash, DIY, The Line Of Best Fit have all lent praise. And at radio there has been sustained and continued support from triple j, Radio X, BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6Music

The last few years for Jess Holt, the Sydney-based artist better known as total tommy, have been the kind where everything turns on its head and you come out of the other side a near-unrecognisable person. Even when the change is for the better, at some point you have to take stock of the bruises you’ve accumulated and the ones you’ve left on others too.

Out of this comes total tommy’s debut album, a collection of scuzzy bedroom-rock anthems appropriately titled bruises. Written during a period in which she went through a breakup, moved cities, came out as queer and met her now-wife, it sees Holt’s bold, raw and witty voice on full display for the first time.

There are a lot of different sides of total tommy on display across bruises: a romantic, a hedonist, a lost soul, a wise friend, an asshole, a sweetheart. What ties it all together is a newfound confidence; a sense of contentment and belief in exactly who she is, the kind that only comes from seeing what’s left after everything’s uprooted. “That was a really big time,” she says, looking back on the two years across which she wrote these songs. “I grew so much, I learnt so much about myself; I mostly feel like an adult now.” But these songs were never meant for navelgazing; they were meant to be played to a crowd, loud and with abandon. bruises is a document of blood, sweat, dilated pupils, warm flesh — aliveness

total tommy

total tommy
arrives armed with a boldness that is instantaneous and infectious, both on record and in person. With great depth in her creative range and sonic versatility, comes a quiet confidence of an artist in control.

total tommy sounds like the first time you got high, because she broke your heart, and makes you wanna do it all over again.

“total tommy started when I moved cities, came out, and spent time properly getting to know myself. Parts of my brain got unlocked that I’d never been able to tap into before, and with that I quickly got to learn a lot about who I was. I partied so much with new queer friends, fell in love, made mistakes, and wrote music to make sense of it all”.

microdose, is the first taste from the Sydney/Eora based indie-rock artist, and is about that “zero to one hundred relationship speed that lesbians dive in at”. microdose was made in close collaboration with Mark Zito and Dan Carey (Wet Leg, Fontaines DC), and oozes low fi indie grunge realness. It was written in total tommy’s bedroom studio on a stormy night, about a drama going down between two friends.

total tommy is an artist to experience from the front row with your friends, where she’ll leave nothing on the sidelines with a willingness to share herself and her experiences.

This album contains no booklet.