Illuminati Hotties - Kiss Yr Frenemies (2018)

Despite the pluralized nom de guerre, illuminati hotties is the creative outlet of Sarah Tudzin - a producer and engineer hailing from the sprawl of Los Angeles. The band has been lighting up stages across SoCal since the Fall of 2016 with playfully interweaving guitar lines, relentless rhythmic momentum and strikingly selfaware vocals. Lauded as local tenderpunk pioneers, illuminati hotties has perfected the blend of sweetness and ferocity, of celebration and despondency, in its upcoming debut album, Kiss Yr Frenemies. At first listen, these 11 sparkling tracks are a sun-drenched, irreverent volley with the onset of adulthood, but as the listener dives deeper, they will find an earnest consideration of musical phrasing and deliberately crafted wordplay regarding the complexity of love, loss and skateboarding.