SOPHIE HOPES FINDS HER ROAR
To say it’s been a long time coming would be one hell of an understatement, but after almost three icy years of anxiety, uncertainty and difficult self-care, Tired Lion are finally back on the prowl and ready to make their next attack on Australia’s thriving grunge-punk revival scene.
‘Their’ might not be the right word, however: despite her insistence of it not technically being a solo project given the new record’s full-bodied sound, and the fact she’ll drag a team of mates up onstage with her once touring becomes viable, everything in Tired Lion – and everything on the ripping new album Breakfast For Pathetics, out in November on Dew Process – comes at the helm of sole surviving member Sophie Hopes, following a period of chaotic upheaval after the cycle for 2017’s Dumb
