TTSSFU – Blown
TTSSFU has shared her Blown EP, along with the new video “Forever” released earlier this week.
Tasmin Stephens is TTSSFU. Pronounced phonetically, TTSSFU takes the vague template of a fuzzed-up dream-pop sound. It’s a dark and unsettling veil of pent-up anxiety spilt over oscillating beats, heavy guitars, and to somewhere approaching a fever-dream.
And whilst TTSSFU’s music harnesses all those words that typically describe shoegaze; ethereal, atmospheric, layered, and immersive instrumentation soaked in reverb, Tasmin comes at it all with a scythe.
“Forever” was co-produced by Chris Ryan (Just Mustard, Cardinals, New Dad) and launches today alongside a video produced by Seth Lloyd.
“Forever” is a soaring ode to friendship—TTSSFU’s closest step yet toward a pop song, though still filtered through her signature shoegaze lens. The sun-soaked late summer anthem fondly reminisces on a lifelong friendship over radiant guitar riffs and Tasmin’s celestial vocals. Synths blur into Tasmin’s voice, veiling the track in glimmering nostalgia and alluring mystery. She chants the track’s title throughout the chorus, a hymn to a never-ending closeness and understanding that, in Tasmin’s words, “never felt so good.”
TTSSFU says: “Forever is probably the happiest song I’ve written, maybe the only happy song I’ve written, and that’s because it’s about one of my best friends in the world.
“It’s about all the memories we have together and everything we’ve gone through. From the moment we met, we have brought so much joy and laughter into each other’s life. I was attempting to write a pop song and when trying to think of things that made me happy, my mind went straight to her.”
In a little over a year performing as TTSSFU, Tasmin has played sold out headline dates across the UK, with support slots alongside Kim Deal, English Teacher, Mannequin Pussy, and Soccer Mommy.
Having gone into the EP intending to, “write some pop songs and something happy”, what came out was altogether more realistic of her songwriting approach. It’s a real-time document of Tasmin’s life in all its messy contradictions, pieced together by her diverse musicality and a souped-up sonic palette.
As TTSSFU, Tasmin isn’t content to simply exist in a vague pool of dream-pop inspired newcomers, nor happy to operate quietly in the shadows. She demands attention, and will be quick to receive it. Her aesthetic, hyper-specific and often unsettling, is imbued with an innate love of analogue horror and the intoxicating glitch and noise of early internet yore. A whirlpool of chaotic energy.
TTSSFU Live:
17 + 18th September – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg
17th October – SWN Festival, Cardiff
18th October – Future Days Festival, Birmingham
30th October – La Coopérative de Mai, Clermont Ferrand (w/ Anika)
31st October – La Parenthese, Nyon
1st November – Les Nuits Weekender, Brussels
3rd November – Cactus Club, Bruges
4th November –Rotondes, Luxembourg
6th November – Catapult Festival, Nantes
7th November –Pitchfork Festival, Paris
9th November - The Attic, Leeds
10th November – Strange Brew, Bristol
11th November – Lower Third, London
15th November – King Tuts, Glasgow
27th November – White Hotel, Manchester
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