Hong Kong band Tfvsjs bring ‘math rock with a Canton twist’ on second album
The local five-piece are playing Kitec at the end of August, the culmination of an Asia tour that will also see them play the mighty Summer Sonic in Japan
Less a band name, more an accident with a keyboard, Tfvsjs make music as complex and unpredictable as their cryptic moniker.
After more than a decade of producing daringly experimental, wistful, twisty-turny “math rock with a Canton twist”, as they describe it, the Hong Kong band launch their second album, titled Zoi, with a gig at the Kitec Music Zone on August 31, the culmination of a tour that will also take them to Japan for five gigs, including one at the giant Summer Sonic Festival, and then to Taipei.
“This album is heavier and more immediate than the first one,” says Chan. “Also every instrument is really clean and distinct; the first album was more muddy.