If it’s too loud, you’re too old, goes the saying. “I mean, we are getting old,” Will Anderson of hotlinetnt says. “But I haven’t turned it down yet.”⁠ ⁠ To be a spectator at a Hotline show is to be so cradled by relentless waves of healing noise. The N.Y.C.-based band make lo-fi, shoegaze-adjacent power-pop, but unlike Kevin Shields’ elaborate labyrinth of guitar pedals, TNT stick to a simple, yet winning, formula: fuzz pedals, a tuner, a lot of guitars, and a really good hook. Up until last year, Hotline TNT was just Anderson and anyone who was free to spend several months on tour.⁠ ⁠ But in the lead-up to writing and recording Raspberry Moon, the band’s lush, jangly third album, due for release on June 20 via thirdmanrecords, Anderson managed to finally seal his band both live and in the studio; it marks the first time that people other than Anderson contributed to writing new Hotline TNT songs. The result is the band’s most realized effort yet, an introspective and bittersweet refl...