\u201cWhen I moved to Minneapolis, I really thought I wasn\u2019t going to play music anymore,\u201d Anderson confessed.<\/p>\n
Instead, he started Hotline TNT as a home-recording project. By the time he moved to New York in 2019 \u2014 where he intended to go to a work as a school counselor \u2014 he had also gotten more serious about TNT. As pandemic restrictions eased, the group starting playing out live and landed the deal with Third Man to release its second album, \u201cCartwheel.\u201d<\/p>\n
An elaborate and alluring blend of cranked-up, fuzzed-out guitars and softer, tender power-pop melodies, \u201cCartwheel\u201d belied the lo-fi recording techniques behind it and wound up being named one of the best albums of 2023 by such influential music blogs as Pitchfork, Paste and Stereogum.<\/p>\n
Many of the writeups on Hotline TNT have called it a shoegaze band, a term that Anderson sounded neither eager or embarrassed to accept.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy understanding and interest in shoegaze music pretty much starts and ends with one band: My Bloody Valentine,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe name of the genre itself is about the gear, a bunch of guitar nerds staring at their feet, which I\u2019ve never really had any interest in,\u201d he said. \u201cI still haven\u2019t really learned a lot of the technical stuff. I like to keep it as simple as I can. To me, it\u2019s just basically about making loud, distorted guitar music with pretty melodies. I really haven\u2019t put too much thought into it besides that.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen I moved to Minneapolis, I really thought I wasn\u2019t going to play music anymore,\u201d Anderson confessed. Instead,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-140706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}