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Illuminati Hotties leader Sarah Tudzin describes her music as "tenderpunk," a self-constructed genre that fuses the energy of pop-punk with the melodic smarts of indie rock and a lyrical outlook that ponders the joys and calamities of being a grown-up under the age of 30. A successful producer and engineer, as well as a songwriter and recording artist, Tudzin writes songs that are deeply personal and witty at the same time, and her studio skills help give her music a subtle sophistication. She introduced the Illuminati Hotties to the world with 2018's Kiss Yr Frenemies, escaped from record label turmoil with a set of jagged pop gems on 2020's FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For, and 2021's Let Me Do One More pushed the emotional boundaries of both joy and self-doubt.
Honing her chops in the Los Angeles music scene, Sarah Tudzin worked as a producer and engineer alongside a whole host of A-list stars including Coldplay, Barbra Streisand, and Lady Gaga, as well as indie stalwarts such as !!! and Porches. An alumnus of Berklee College of Music, Tudzin also worked with engineer and producer Chris Coady, as well as having sound design credits on the Grammy-winning musical Hamilton. While she was a talented musician and songwriter, Tudzin initially wanted to focus on building her resumé as an engineer and producer. However, when it occurred to her that she had plenty of credits assisting Coady and other producers but didn't have much work to point to as her own, she created Illuminati Hotties as a vehicle to show off her studio skills with her own songs.
Primarily recorded during studio downtime from projects for others, Tudzin created 2018's Kiss Yr Frenemies as a calling card for potential production clients, but when work took her to Nashville, several of her musically inclined friends (including singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus and Jacob Blizard) urged her to give the material a proper release. Tudzin partnered with the indie label Tiny Engines to issue the album, but while she was working on her next LP, Tiny Engines was having severe financial and organizational problems, and rather than give her next album to a label about to go under, Tudzin bought out her contract. Instead of finishing the record she had begun work on, she quickly put together a 12-song mixtape titled FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For. The release was well received, and she started working with other musicians to play occasional Illuminati Hotties live shows.
Rather than finding another label to support her career, Tudzin founded her own label, Snack Shack Tracks, in association with the indie punk imprint Hopeless Records. Together they released Illuminati Hotties' third full-length, Let Me Do One More, in late 2021.
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Discography
19 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Let Me Do One More
Rock - Released by Snack Shack Tracks - Hopeless Records on 1 okt. 2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Alternative en Indie - Released by Tiny Engines on 4 sep. 2019
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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illuminati hotties on Audiotree Live
Alternative en Indie - Released by Audiotree Music on 14 mrt. 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Truck
Rock - Released by Snack Shack Tracks - Hopeless Records on 19 jul. 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
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Kiss Yr Frenemies
Alternative en Indie - Released by Tiny Engines on 11 mei 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For
Rock - Released by Snack Shack Tracks on 17 jul. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Doomsday (Illuminati Hotties Version)
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Alternative en Indie - Released by Run For Cover Records on 23 aug. 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sandwich Sharer
Rock - Released by Snack Shack Tracks - Hopeless Records on 2 feb. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
FREE I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For
Alternative en Indie - Released by Big Scary Monsters on 17 jul. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Head On
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Alternative en Indie - Released by carpark on 17 mrt. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
(You're Better) Than Ever
Alternative en Indie - Released by Tiny Engines on 21 feb. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Patience
Alternative en Indie - Released by Tiny Engines on 27 apr. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
will i get cancelled if i write a song called, "if you were a man you'd be so cancelled"
Alternative en Indie - Released by Big Scary Monsters on 10 jul. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Pool Hopping (Strange Pool Remix) [feat. Bartees Strange]
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Rock - Released by Snack Shack Tracks - Hopeless Records on 19 aug. 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Paying Off the Happiness
Alternative en Indie - Released by Tiny Engines on 30 mrt. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cuff (Single Edit)
Alternative en Indie - Released by Tiny Engines on 9 mrt. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Pretenders (illuminati hotties Remix)
Alternative en Indie - Released by Last Gang on 27 feb. 2023
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo