Tomato Flower is the result of long-lasting friendships and overlapping collaborations that found Austyn Wohlers, Mike Alfieri, and Jamison Murphy (and later adding bassist Ruby Mars) looking for the balance between taut guitars and experimental pop music. Their debut EP Gold Arc finds the band at multiple crossroads.

Their sonic curiosity plays with tension between sweetness and destructive heaviness. Conceptually, Gold Arc hungers for an alternate reality. Sometimes that is a “sustainable paradise,” as drummer Mike Alfieri puts it. Or, on “Lovers Arc,” it’s a desire to be loved constantly. “It's not that all these songs are straightforwardly positive, though,” explains Austyn Wohlers. “I think all of the songs are about longing for a different world. But they take various shapes.” Playing freely with genre conventions and imagining different versions of the future, Tomato Flower’s songs are dynamic questions. A new guard of experimental pop, their music demonstrates where curiosity can take us, improving and expanding upon what came before with a bright outlook.

releases February 11, 2022

Written, performed, and recorded by Mike Alfieri (drums), Jamison Murphy (guitar/vox), and Austyn Wohlers (guitar/keys/vox)

Mixed by Jared Paolini at Tempo House Recording
Mastered by Mat Leffler-Schulman at Mobtown Studios
Cover art by Patrick Mayer