SCREAMING IN THE MIRROR

Loser

nothing or something to die for

sparky (feat. lei, e)

Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds

Mr. Ratatatatat

Lost Time

You Can't Fire Me, I Quit

The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower

When A Man Is In Love With A Man

Cherry Peel

Everything Disappears When You Come Around

I Can't Stop Your Memory

The Gay Parade

Neat Little Domestic Life

False Priest

Famine Affair

A Dense Swarm of Ancient Stars

Cool Coconuts

Sleep It Off

What's A Girl To Do

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.”

You Can't Fire Me, I Quit

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