Music by Tomorrows Tulips
Words by Kevin Susienka

It is a weird experience when you discover a new band more than a decade after their first release. You might wonder where the hell they’ve been the past 14 years – or where the hell you’ve been. That’s what happened to me in this case. One thing I can say, though, is that I’m glad it happened because they are a band that will remind of both my past and my present when the future comes along. They sound like my early twenties, yet they released their work during my mid thirties – and I just heard them for the first time in my forties.

Tomorrows Tulips are, in every sense, raw. From 2010 to 2020 they put out four albums and several extended plays, all of which have a unique demo tape feel, were a demo tape absolutely freaking flawless. If these sounds were tweaked too much by modern technology, they would certainly lose a bit of their charm. The older sounds that Tomorrows Tulips brings me back to – those of the Velvet Underground, Pavement and Sonic Youth – are so much more revered today because of the absence of technological tampering in the final products. They have grit and they always will. 

For our younger readers, this band could send you down an existence-altering rabbit hole of music. You deserve that. It’s one of life’s pleasures to find a band that introduces you to an entire genre of music that you didn’t know existed before you heard them. Maybe they’ll lead you to the legends mentioned above or to Japanese Motors, band leader Alex Knost’s other group that will be ringing off the walls of the Rosewater office – all ten feet by ten feet of it – right after these next few words. Have a great week. Peace.

ROSEWATER 0003 // March 2024