Review: New Tropic - Loiter EP

Transplanted Wellingtonian New Tropic (his pseudonym is shortened from Newman Tropic) is clearly finding East Berlin a dark and mysterious place. A former well-regarded punk and hardcore drummer back in New Zealand, New Tropic’s debut EP Loiter instead revels in darker, more brooding compositions than his background would suggest. It seems built from urban paranoia, mould growing in East Berlin squats, flickering street lights, dark corners that populate any cityscape – essentially it’s evocative enough to conjure up all sorts of imagery (though for most it’d be darker imagery).

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