Brooklyn’s Television Overdose, better known as TVOD, has dropped their delightfully disillusioned debut, Party Time, available now via Mothland. With a sardonic sneer and glazed-over gazes, TVOD serves up a soundtrack to a shindig at the end of days, where the party’s still going even though no one’s really celebrating.
The title track delivers a dose of dystopian disco, drenched in synth-heavy unease reminiscent of eerie, late-’70s horror scores. When the band shouts, “What time is it?” the weary, half-hearted response, “Party time!” echoes with apathy rather than excitement, like a party invitation issued at the brink of collapse. Shades of Faith No More’s sardonic We Care A Lot, Black Flag’s sarcastically lethargic TV Party, and Beastie Boys’ begrudging battle cry Fight For Your Right To Party permeate the track, yet TVOD injects their brand of modern malaise. (You might even catch a hint of their namesake song in their style.)
“We had a bunch of friends come over to do backup vocals on Party Time, says the band. “We recorded ourselves getting drunk in the studio and had producers Félix and Sam record themselves talking shit about us in French for the end of the song.”
It’s less celebration and more sedation, capturing revelers numbed by substances and resigned to their ritualistic revelry. Party Time invites listeners to a nihilistic night-out, where the world’s ending outside, but the music’s loud enough to drown out the dread and piss off the neighbours. TVOD’s debut is a bleak, brilliantly bored bash, because when everything’s falling apart, why not dance and dope through the decay?
The cheerfully sinister stop-motion cutout spectacle, meticulously crafte by animator Callum Scott-Dyson, plays out like a handcrafted hallucination. This DIY delirium depicts rows of hollow-eyed office drones, zombified modern-day minions slogging through soulless factory shifts. Punching out, they shuffle home exhausted, shedding corporate cocoons to reveal their true forms: chaos demons chasing chemical comforts, desperate to dull the drone of existence. Outside, the city burns, apocalypse advancing unnoticed as the narcotic numbness of the eternal party quietly devours them. It’s bleak folk art from the end of the line, a quaintly grotesque portrait of humanity medicating itself into oblivion.
“I became email pen pals with Callum, a UK artist currently living in Seoul, South Korea,” says TVOD’s Tyler Wright. “He reached out with some of his claymation and 2D card cut-out videos and asked if we wanted to use them for anything. I thought his work was sick, so I sent him our song Party Time and asked if he’d be down to make something for it. He dug the track and sent me this loose idea about someone living a boring, paranoid life while hiding this wild party personality in their head—a kind of mental escape hatch. That concept hit home hard. He really got what I was trying to say lyrically. Callum handled the visuals using this super hands-on process: he created a full script, hand-drew and cut out every single element, and shot everything frame by frame using stop-motion on a green screen.The level of detail and care he put into it blew me away.”
Watch the video for “Party Time” below:
True to its title, Party Time plunges headlong into exhilaration edged with existential dread. Beneath the dancefloor decadence hides a dazed desperation, lyrics soaked in booze, blurring away troubles in a numb haze. The album surges with raw, reckless emotions: chaos wrapped in nostalgia, aching longing tangled with manic elation, pain dulled by chemical comforts, and bleary-eyed introspection amidst the end-of-days revelry.
“In short, it’s hangxiety-induced punk to dance or mosh to,” the band concludes.
Listen to Party Time below and order the album here.
TVOD spoke with Post-Punk.com about the music video, their evolving sound and the new track.
You’ve described Party Time as ‘hangxiety-induced punk’—can you talk about how partying, or escapism, and self-reflection coexist throughout the album?
There’s a lot more to this LP than just drinking beers and getting shit-hammered with your buddies. It focuses on aspects of the late-night lifestyle that most music tends to stray away from. The album deals primarily with the negative effects of substance abuse and addiction. It reflects the darker sides of regularly painting the town red and describes how consecutive late nights can alter your brain chemistry—changing you into a demon (Devil) you hardly even recognize. Just like the bottle says, I hope this album encourages people to try to enjoy responsibly. Many of these songs detail my own struggles with diving too far into the deep end of a good time, trying to escape the past.
The music video is such a unique collaboration—what was it like handing off such a personal track to a visual artist, and did Callum’s interpretation surprise you in any way?
It was definitely a leap of faith trusting someone the band and I had never met in real life. When we were first exchanging emails and he pitched his vision for what he wanted to make, I knew we had to work with him. He really understood the vibe we were trying to convey with the song—that it was more than just another basic party anthem. He got that most people live these mundane, structured lives, and a lot of us turn to drugs and alcohol to escape that. It’s not all just red solo cups, bikinis, and getting high on lobotomies. If we don’t practice self-care, it can lead to all sorts of problems—like making you destroy an entire city with your acid vomit.
With such a unique blend of ‘post-punk, egg punk, and krautrock,’ how would you describe the evolution of TVOD’s sound since you first started in 2019? What can fans expect from Party Time that’s different from your previous work?
I think they can expect to hear us experimenting more with the boundaries of various genres. Even though Party Time is technically a “punk” album, we let our other musical inspirations shine on this one too. We all listen to a wide range of music in and out of the tour van—jazz, hip-hop, old country, funk, hardcore, etc.—and if we did it right, I think the listener will be able to hear all of that. I also think we’ve grown a lot as a band from being on the road so much the past couple of years. We’ve really become this big family. I love being in this traveling circus with my guys.
TVOD is excited to announce the North American leg of their 2025 tour, kicking off with several dates across Canada and culminating at the Evolution Festival in St. Louis, Missouri. See list of full dates below:
Tour Dates:
- 5/28 – Luxembourg, LX @ Rotondes
- 5/29 – Bruxelles, BE @ Volta
- 5/30 – Antwerp, BE @ TRIX
- 5/31 – Strasbourg, FR @ Pelpass Festival
- 6/2 – Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie
- 6/3 – Orléans, FR @ Astrolabe
- 6/4 – Clermont-Ferrand, FR @ Coopérative de Mai
- 6/5 – Düdingen, CH @ Bad Bonn
- 6/6 – Lourmarin, FR @ Yeah! Festival
- 6/7 – Lisle, FR @ Lisle Sauvage
- 6/8 – Saint-Brieuc, FR @ Art Rock Festival
- 6/10 – Dijon, FR @ La Vapeur
- 6/11 – Lille, FR @ L’Aeronef
- 6/12 – Tours, FR @ Aucard de Tours Festival
- 6/13 – Metz, FR @ Les Trinitaires
- 6/14 – Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret
- 6/16 – Hannover, DE @ Nordstadtbraut
- 6/17 – Kiel, DE @ Hansa 48
- 6/18 – Hamburg, DE @ MS Hedi
- 6/19 – Dresden, DE @ TBD
- 6/20 – Leipzig, DE @ NBL
- 6/21 – Berlin, DE @ Kastanienkeller
- 6/22 – Prague, CZ @ Bike Jesus
- 7/3 – Burlington, VT @ Radio Bean
- 7/4 – Quebec, QC @ FEQ
- 7/5 – Montreal, QC @ Le Ritz PDB
- 7/6 – Ottawa, ON @ 7/6 – House of Targ w/ CDSM
- 8/8 – Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right (Album launch party)
- 8/30 – Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road Festival
- 9/27 – St. Louis, MO @ Evolution Festival
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