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Tús Nua

Rock / Croatia (Zagreb)
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Post Rock, Shoegaze, Noise Rock

" The girls are back in town "

Many doors opened for Tús Nua after their excellent 2017 debut album, ‘Horizons’. The Zagreb post-rock queer girls Jordi Ilić, Jelena Božić and Mateja Milivoj first played INmusic Festival 2018 and then Eurosonic Noorderslag 2019. They also found a way to launch their careers in the United States, with their album getting a cassette release on the Seattle based label Weltraum–Wal Records, followed by its radio airplay by the worldwide influential KEXP.

In the meantime Mateja quit the band, so Tús Nua continued as a duo, consisting of Jordi and Jelena on guitars, synths and vocals with additional musicians recruited for live gigs  – Lucija Radalj on bass and Andrea Pedron on drums.

With 2019 singles ‘Ride’ and ‘Palindrome’, Jordi and Jelena made significant progress towards a more complex Tús Nua post-rock sound, one that also took in shoegaze and noise rock. Both singles were released as early previews of the second album, included in their setlist for their winter 2019/2020 European tour.

After their successful tour, they played one more Zagreb gig, and were waiting for another exciting festival season before a Covid-19 lockdown put paid to their plans.

The pandemic restrictions also slowed down their studio recording sessions, but Jordi soon broke the silence with her more experimental solo project, Naentu. The girls were back together in mid-2021, with the noisy single ‘Lights Out’, and their long-awaited second album ‘Nothing Personal’ finally arrived on Bandcamp a few months later.

It’s made up of nine powerful tunes including ‘Lights Out’ and previously released efforts ‘Ride’ and ‘Palindrome’. Tús Nua played several dates in fall 2021, mainly around Croatia and Serbia but ‘Nothing Personal’ threatens to propel them towards far more.    

Published: January 2, 2019 – Updated: February 2, 2022

Photo: Nina Đurđević