Heavy For The Tropics

Heavy for the Tropics are a bacchanal - an alternative outfit combining sweet indiegirl melodies, noisy post punk guitars, and a vast array of grooves and rhythms.

HFFT are as their name suggests: emoting the heaviness of modern life through thought provoking lyrics, but as if you are on holiday with music that is energetic and explorative, like raving on Bikini Atoll in stunning desolation....whilst continuously downing cough syrup. Drawing from copious creatives such as Ebo Taylor, The Breeders, Mariana Enriquez, Deerhoof, Dinosaur Jr and Hannah Hoch, HFTT are kaleidoscopic.

HFTT latest single 'VANITIES' in June 2025. Vanities is a surveillance on western society's beauty business - its promotion of unattainable standards and the disposable nature of individual's dignity for profit, all set with angular punk underpinnings, an afro-beat influenced groove, and wordplay reminiscent of Lullabys era QOTSA.

It's not just the consistent aggrandizement of unnatural, spurious, or outright fabrication of beauty. It is also the voracious nature of the industry, our media, and us online in judgement of all who cannot live up to a fictitious standard.

Ian says: 'Vanities is one of the first ever tracks we wrote as HFTT and encompasses a lot of our ideology. It has the lively instrumental with its punk, art rock, and psych influence paired with the social commentary in the lyrics delivered with a catchy melody, almost catching you off guard with how surreal some of the words are!