Nashville’s most bombastic double bass quartet – Tower Defense – returns with a pair of new songs, “Fit for Purpose” and “Artless Hands”.
Together, these tracks tackle the frustration of our spaces being controlled and manipulated by the urge to increase the bottom line. “Fit for Purpose” targets Nashville’s sprawling, sun-baked parking lots multiplying across the city. These urban heat islands squeeze out shade, waste valuable space and simply lie in wait for the next sucker to pay.
“Artless Hands” takes aim at the streaming economy. Inspired by a 2021 Nashville Scene column by Chris Crofton, the reflection on “the executive class’s bloody, artless hands, unloading all the world’s music off the metaphorical back of a truck” became the song’s anchor. The track weaves in lyrical threads from Converge and Christina Aguilera, originally placeholders that ended up too right to remove.
Together, the songs form a companion piece: two meditations on commodification, one about land, one about sound, both about profiteers disinterested in the common good.
Oh, and both tracks are total bangers. Hear it on Ampwall, Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify and everywhere else.
Tower Defense plays The 5 Spot here in Nashville, TN on June 6, 2026 at 6pm to celebrate the new release. See you there.
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