"if we die young, we die young together..."
Accompanied with a stellar Official Video featuring a surprising cameo from Jerry Harrison of The Talking Heads, a (totally believable) ax wielding psycho, and Taxes' Robby Cronholm and Aishlin as the prey, the supercharged "Last Call" is explosively potent. And despite the absolutely, unabashedly urgent heaviness, it shines with a positive light instead of feeling the least bit dark and that is refreshing these days. Within Taxes' sound here I feel like the gigantic celebratory Americana rock aesthetic of artists like Japandroids, Diarrhea Planet and Titus Andronicus or maybe an amalgam of all of them.
From the band's new album "Retirement Home", "Last Call" feels like a heavier, rowdier sister song to Semisonic's 1998 iconic hit "Closing Time" but, truth be told, "Last Call" is just as sentimental.
From the band's press notey stuff:
"At its visual epicenter lies an infamous Mill Valley bar, The 2am Club, where Taxes’ boisterous music seems to really come to life, their intentions now clear: to revel in good moments, to escape reality for a minute, and to realize that you don’t always have to grow old together with a romantic partner – you can grow old with your friends."
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/taxesband
https://www.instagram.com/taxesband/
https://twitter.com/taxesband
http://taxesband.com/
Finally, an alternative to Semisonic’s “Closing Time.”
At its core, new single Last Call from Taxes is actually a love song, but not in the way you might think. Sonically, the Bay-area conglomerate’s dynamism is as intact as it ever was – if not more so. The plucky electric vigor carries through to the rest of their new album Retirement Home, and the music video for Last Call features (among other things) an ax-wielding escaped convict, dead bodies, and Jerry Harrison of The Talking Heads flossing his teeth.
At its visual epicenter lies an infamous Mill Valley bar, The 2am Club, where Taxes’ boisterous music seems to really come to life, their intentions now clear: to revel in good moments, to escape reality for a minute, and to realize that you don’t always have to grow old together with a romantic partner – you can grow old with your friends.
And it’s there the lovesong-ness becomes apparent in a way that sneaks up on you – disguised beneath shared harmonies and driving chords and a pinch of heartbreak, singer Robby Cronholm loves his band and his music. Taxes’ latest work sees the band in peak form, writing music that thinks as much as it entertains.
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We get by with a little help from our friends
Taxes, alt rock, guitar rock, jubilation rock, indie rock, garage rock, "Last Call", singer Robby Cronholm, Bay area, celebration rock, heavy rock, punchy,
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/taxesband
https://www.instagram.com/taxesband/
https://twitter.com/taxesband
http://taxesband.com/
Finally, an alternative to Semisonic’s “Closing Time.”
At its core, new single Last Call from Taxes is actually a love song, but not in the way you might think. Sonically, the Bay-area conglomerate’s dynamism is as intact as it ever was – if not more so. The plucky electric vigor carries through to the rest of their new album Retirement Home, and the music video for Last Call features (among other things) an ax-wielding escaped convict, dead bodies, and Jerry Harrison of The Talking Heads flossing his teeth.
At its visual epicenter lies an infamous Mill Valley bar, The 2am Club, where Taxes’ boisterous music seems to really come to life, their intentions now clear: to revel in good moments, to escape reality for a minute, and to realize that you don’t always have to grow old together with a romantic partner – you can grow old with your friends.
And it’s there the lovesong-ness becomes apparent in a way that sneaks up on you – disguised beneath shared harmonies and driving chords and a pinch of heartbreak, singer Robby Cronholm loves his band and his music. Taxes’ latest work sees the band in peak form, writing music that thinks as much as it entertains.
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We get by with a little help from our friends
Taxes, alt rock, guitar rock, jubilation rock, indie rock, garage rock, "Last Call", singer Robby Cronholm, Bay area, celebration rock, heavy rock, punchy,
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