Fvzz Popvli Announce European Tour; New Album Melting Pop Out Feb. 7

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I’m honestly not sure how to classify the upcoming Fvzz Popvli album, whether Melting Pop will be the Roman trio’s first for Heavy Psych Sounds proper or if 2023’s III (review here) was through the label as well as RetroVox or has been reissued or the band just worked with HPS for booking or what. When they signed, there was a sense they were re-signing, that’s all. In any case, they’re on the label now and the record’s coming out.

Imagine heavy garage and proto-punk meeting with loose-groove fuzz, shades of Ramones getting their feet under them, but grown up on Fu Manchu and desert riffing. They’ve never been nor have they ever tried to be perfect — perfect would ruin the songs — but the rawness that’s been part of their collective character to this point comes up against an inevitable awareness of self in the sound. That is, Fvzz Popvli have been around for a bit at this point and, almost in spite of themselves, know what they’re doing. In this case, they’re melting pop.

Also, they’re going on tour.

The dates are in the poster below, and beneath that, I’ve included the album info as well, because I hadn’t had the chance to post it and for my own future reference.

So, from socials and the PR wire, then. A rare collaboration between the two in one post:

fvzz popvli melting tour

Europe!!! fvzzpopvli will be hitting the road in March to celebrate their new LP Melting Pop!!! Be sure to catch them!!!

Say Fvzz Popvli: “Happy new year folks! Let’s start with an awesome announcement: The 1st leg for the MELTING TOUR, the tour will support our upcoming release “MELTING POP” across Europe! We gonna perform in Italy,Switzerland,Germany,Holland,Belgium,Austria and for the very 1st time GREECE!”

Founded in Rome by Pootchie and Datio in A.D. MMXVI, FVZZ POPVLI is a power trio that delivers heavy fuzzy riffs in a straightforward and no-frills fashion. They play a wild blend of Black Sabbath-style heaviness, a rough garage punk band attitude à la The Stooges, and 70s psychedelia.

The band released their debut EP in May 2017 with a promotional tour in Italy, Switzerland and Germany. In June, they signed to Heavy Psych Sounds for the release of their debut album “Fvzz Dei”, which has brought the band to more than 70 European stages in eight countries including the revered indie festival Duna Jam. In 2018, FVZZ POPVLI released their second album “Magna Fuzz” followed by 75 European shows with appearances at festivals such as HPS Fest, Le Grand Incendie, Berlin Swamp Fest and Tabernas Desert Rock Festival. In 2019, the band signed with indie label Retrovox and released their third studio album “Fvzz Popvli III” in March 2023, supported by four European tours.

FVZZ POPVLI have shared the stage with White Hills, Black Rainbows, Ufomammut, Karma To Burn, Mars Red Sky, Rotor, Naxatras, Lili Refrain, El Perro, Giöbia, Zodiac, DYSE, Powder for Pigeons, Hypnos, The Tazers, Mother Engine, The Midnight Ghost Train and much more.

About their upcoming new album, the band says: “As always, we decided to do our own thing. We’re just so over the same old tired riffs and worn-out stoner vibes, like a pair of Birkenstocks at an indie concert, and let’s not even start on those interesting lyrics about how to smoke weed (seriously, tell us more!). So here we are at a crossroads: should we just follow the crowd and do what everyone else is doing, or put in the hard work to create something that makes us happy while we play it? Well, here’s Melting Pop! It’s not stoner, it’s not garage, it’s not punk, it’s not psych, it’s not even a traditional album. It’s melting, a blend of Fvzz Popvli saying “screw the labels” and just going with the flow, all-natural, like grown-ups with no preservatives.”

TRACKLIST:
1. Temple Of Doom
2. Telephone
3. Salty Biscvits
4. Erotik Fvel P.I.M.P
5. Kommando
6. Ovija
7. Cop Sacher
8. The Knight

Fvzz Popvli:
Pootchie – Gvitar and Voice
Alex – Bass
George – Drvms

https://www.facebook.com/FvzzPopvli/
https://www.instagram.com/fvzzpopvli/
fvzzpopvli.bandcamp.com

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www.heavypsychsounds.com
https://www.facebook.com/HEAVYPSYCHSOUNDS/
https://www.instagram.com/heavypsychsounds_records/

Fvzz Popvli, Melting Pop (2025)

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