This week, Boston and NYC-based indie outfit Tuxis Giant announced their new album, You Won’t Remember This, set for release on August 15th via Worry Bead Records. The band has long been a fixture of the indie and DIY scenes, performing alongside names like Frog, whose latest album we reviewed here.
To mark the announcement, Tuxis Giant has released the album’s second single, “Silver Cup,” a deeply personal track written by frontperson Matt O’Connor (they/them). The song delves into O’Connor’s early experiences with gender dysphoria and the euphoric, spell-like feeling of transformation. “It’s about those private moments of euphoria,” O’Connor shares, “when you can cast a spell and transform, even if you know it’s only temporary.” Looping guitars and heartbeat drums underscore the song’s conditional hope.
The single is accompanied by a striking music video created by fellow trans artist Enne Goldstein. Goldstein spent over 50 hours animating, directing, and editing the video, printing and scanning each frame individually to visualise the song’s themes of transformation and identity.
Speaking on the video, Goldstein said: “I have been a fan of Tuxis Giant’s for years. I spend 50+ hours on every video I make, since I edit, direct, and animate the entire thing, and this particular video required printing out every frame and scanning them individually. I feel connected to “Silver Cup” in many ways, it feels like one of my closest companions.
Goldstein continues: It was the month of March for me. I feel closer to Matt because of it, too. I love the lyrics about exploring transness/external personal identity in a safe way. I love the idea that exploring yourself takes you somewhere else physically. I work a lot with the idea of transformation, as I am trans myself, and I am interested in how energy shifts and changes in physical space and time. This song allowed me to visualise a world where we can see this take place.”
You Won’t Remember This promises a vulnerable yet confident exploration of gender, family, and memory. The album follows the lead single “Last Laugh” and O’Connor’s recent success spearheading the True Names compilation, which raised over £1,500 for the Trans Youth Emergency Project, channelling that same raw honesty into a deeply generous new record.
Pre-Order You Won’t Remember This via Bandcamp: https://tuxisgiant.bandcamp.com/album/you-wont-remember-this