Welcome to a feature where we sit down and talk to bands and artists about their latest albums to find out all about it. Today we speak to the band Triple Lutz about the debut album In the Hands of an Angry Mob.
Hello nice to meet you, tell us about yourself!
We are Triple Lutz, a half queer/half femme/half bald punk band from Portland, Oregon.
Tell us about the new album
Our debut record is titled “In the Hands of an Angry Mob”
Tell us a bit about the recording process, was it fun to do?
The recording process was a ton of fun. We worked with one of Portland’s most in-demand engineers, Evan Mersky, at Red Lantern Studios, a kind of Portland band rite of passage. We tracked the whole thing in 2 days almost 3 years ago! I will never forget those days and the decisions we made and how Evan pushed us outside of our comfort zones to get the best possible recording.
What inspired the album name?
The album name is a play on the title of a famous American sermon during The Great Awakening, “In the Hands of an Angry Mob.” With this word switch of “God” to “Mob” I am talking about how as a culture we have shifted from a fear of being punished by God to the fear of being cancelled on the internet and all the trolls and social justice warriors. In the end, we are always scared of our own communities because we love to judge each other and tend to take our cues from traditional forms of punitive justice instead of restorative justice.
Tell us the idea behind the album cover?
The album art is by Lance Lee, a Taiwanese tattoo artist. I stumbled across one of his flash sheets and all the images happened to represent various themes and motifs in the lyrics on the album (such as fiery hands, pointing fingers, nails inside of ears, and vicious punk dogs). We changed a couple of the images to make this correlation even tighter, and kind of moved some things around. He is one of my favorite artists and was very easy to work with, very patient and a total sweetheart.
What one of your songs on the new album do you think will be the most difficult to rehearse for a live audience?
“Dead Grass” is usually kind of difficult to rehearse because we play it so rarely at gigs. It’s a lot slower and doesn’t usually fit the momentum of our sets that we are going for.
Why should people listen to the album?
They should listen to this album because it rips! It’s fun and bratty and heavy and energetic! It sounds amazing, hits hard, deals with real life issues like mental health, genocide/displacement, class war, the threats of people in power, and observations of the current punk scene and what we can do better, how we can look at ourselves more clearly and hold space for others.
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