Lost Time

I Hate the Weekend

Take Me to Your Dealer

Cat Fancy

Volcano

Hey Girl

F.U. #8

Psychedelic Quinceañera

Crimson Wave

Bridge to Hawaii

Talk

Men Explain Things to Me

Horse Grrls

Plan A, Plan B

I Love Seattle

Night Swimming

The Internet

Dana Katherine Scully

You Can't Fire Me, I Quit

Leisure Bees

This Mess Is a Place

Grains of Salt

Hologram

Rose-Colored Sky

The Joke of Life

Miles and Miles

Meet Me at La Palma

Crystal Ball

New World

The Problem

Little Friend

Retrograde

When Tacocat first started, the world they were responding to was vastly different from the current Seattle scene of diverse voices they’ve helped foster. It was a world of house shows, booking DIY tours on MySpace, and writing funny, deliriously catchy feminist pop-punk songs when feminism was the quickest way to alienate yourself from the then-en vogue garage-rock bros. Their lyrical honesty, humor, and hit-making sensibilities have built the band a fiercely devoted fanbase over the years, one that has followed them from basements to dive bars to sold-out shows at the Showbox. Every step along the way has been a seamless progression—from silly songs about Tonya Harding and psychic cats to calling out catcallers and poking fun at entitled weekend-warrior tech jerks.

This Mess is a Place, Tacocat’s 4th full-length and first on Sub Pop, finds the band waking up the morning after the 2016 election and figuring out how to respond to a new reality where evil isn’t hiding under the surface at all—it’s front and center, with new tragedies and civil rights assaults filling up the scroll of the newsfeed every day. “What a time to be barely alive,” laments “Crystal Ball,” a gem that examines the more intimate side of responding emotionally to the news cycle. How do you keep fighting when all you want to do is stay in bed all day? “Stupid computer stupor/Oh my kingdom for some better ads,” Nokes sings, throwing in some classic Tacocat snark, “Truth spread so thin/It stops existing.”

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