Tina Fey is a heavy three-piece from Cincinnati, Ohio. The band formed in 2022 out of the ashes of Eunoia and has spent the better part of the last year heads-down, recording and writing. They've played maybe six or eight shows since their 2024 tour with Doom Beach — but that's about to change.

Their debut full-length, Victory Lap, drops May 1st.

The record was tracked and mixed by Jim Marlowe at End of an Ear in Louisville, KY over a four-day stretch where the band holed up and largely banged the whole thing out. French horn and additional vocals were captured by Kainon Loebker at Latchkey Studios in Cincinnati, additional vocal work recorded by Shelby Preklas at Loud and Clear in Paducah, KY, and the whole thing was mastered by Ryan Prushinski. Cover art by Wes Thurman.

Victory Lap is named partly out of wishful thinking and partly as a real declaration — the band went through a hell of a year collectively while making it, and the title reflects both the weight of that and the fact that they made it through. What started as a loose collection of songs built up since the last tour slowly became something more personal. Lyrics written fast, meant to sit right rhythmically, ended up airing out some genuinely intense stuff from 2024–2025. The band is proud of it in the way you're proud of something you bled for.

The lineup on Victory Lap is Logan Nichols (guitar, vocals), Kevin Vance (bass, vocals on Track 5), and Shon Worthington (drums), with Derik Overstreet and Melvin Cortez Jackson contributing vocals and French horn respectively to Track 7, and piano on that track from Nichols. Shon has since departed on good terms, and the band has been playing with Patrick Apfelbeck behind the kit — who, when he joined, played a particularly gnarly section at the end of "Strigo" perfectly on the first try, having never been shown it.

The lead single, "Strigo" — Esperanto for "owl" — is about the kind of love and solidarity that holds friendships together long-term, and what it takes to maintain that in the world as it is right now. The music video was directed by Tina Fey. The second single, "Dead in a Boat," is the oldest surviving Tina Fey song, written when the band was still a two-piece. It's about the particular feeling of cycling through failure with no payout in sight. The song was actually named by Jim Marlowe in the studio — the band never names anything until the last possible moment, and he saved the file as "Dead in a Boat," so that's what it became.

The band describes Victory Lap simply: they want the people who would love this record to find it. They put an insane amount of work into it and they know it.