tAngerinecAt is a British duo whose powerful sonic rituals merge shamanic industrial electronics, dark jazz, folk, post metal, overtone singing, and evocative spoken word into a visceral, genre-defying experience. Formed by Ukrainian-born producer, sound artist, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Zhenia Purpurovsky and British sound artist Paul Chilton, the project is driven by a fierce anti-war, anti-fascist, and anti-ecocide ethos and a deep commitment to artistic innovation.
Over more than a decade, the duo has built a worldwide following, releasing seven albums and touring in 15 countries, performing at an array of internationally recognised festivals including Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Tallinn Music Week, Menuo Joudaragis, Hradby Samoty, Ex Tenebris Lux, Focus Wales, Equinox, Eden, Willowman, and Knockengorroch, among many others. In 2024, they completed a tour across Germany and Czechia with dark-electro pioneers Project Pitchfork.
Their album GLASS reached the top of the Bandcamp charts and was named one of Louder Than War’s Top 100 Albums of 2022, establishing the band as one of the most arresting voices in contemporary alternative music. Their acclaimed follow-up, Grief, explores an East–West fusion shaped by Ukrainian and Soviet musical heritage, industrial electronica, and cathartic vocal performance. Its bold socio-political message underpinned a highly successful headline UK tour, with packed shows at iconic venues including The Voodoo Rooms (Edinburgh), The Old Church (London), and The Louisiana (Bristol). A new UK and European tour is scheduled for Spring 2026.
tAngerinecAt stands at the forefront of experimental music, crafting a transformative sound that is both deeply rooted and radically future-focused, defying genre, categorisation, and expectation.
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'I’ve never heard anything quite like this... Chilling and Unsettlingly Beautiful... It’s Stunning'
- Adam Walton, BBC Wales
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“It’s all about the atmosphere, the tension and the spaces between the sound. Indeed, there are moments of silence within the set when you can practically hear a pin drop. The lack of chatter between songs ensures the spell remains unbroken. Grief – the title track from their latest LP – begins with an a cappella vocal sung entirely in Ukrainian. The latter part of the song sounds like some cosmic funeral procession and – to my ears – invokes the beautiful Going Up by post-industrial legends Coil (I must really have them on my mind tonight).”
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- Louder Than War
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'Glass is a truly astounding, powerful and highly pertinent piece of work… The outfit fuses electronica and drone with industrial flourishes and beautifully dark songwriting… If it doesn’t get your blood pumping then you may as well check yourself into the crematorium… Over throbbing electronica and a relentless four-to-the-floor beat, tAngerinecAt delivers one of the most exciting pieces of music I’ve heard this year. It is, to use a technical term, an absolute banger.’
– Louder Than War
'tAngerinecAt is breaking down barriers and the time-space continuum'
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