Taco Hell – Breathe Deeply (Circle House Records)
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| Taco Hell - Breathe Deeply EP |
Release Date: 12th August 2016
Regular readers will know how
much I love a good band name and Nottingham Punks Taco Hell have already put
themselves in the driver’s seat for my ‘Band Name of The Year’ Award in
December. The quartet have only been together since January but they’ve already
bagged themselves a deal with Exeter label Circle House Records who are
re-releasing this debut EP. The five track EP opens up with ‘Joe Shocks the
Band’, a furious two minutes of punky, bouncy fun that sets out the band’s
stall and boy do they mean business. ‘High 2.2’ is up next and it’s a
thoroughly British slice of garage-punk lamenting the waste of time spent
studying towards something, anything really, in the hope of a future, of a
direction.
The rawness and energy will
surely appeal to devotees of Steve Lamacq’s playlists and would have certainly
got John Peel excited back in the day. ‘Bendy’ is a slightly mellower affair as
singer Joe Booker wails “Don’t walk out on me, I’ve got something to ask you”
over clashing and jangling guitars. ‘Audrey’ is my favourite track on this
collection with its heavy rhythm section and gang mentality played out through
rough edged vocal harmonies. The EP closes with ‘Breathe Deeply’ which, at six
minutes long, is virtually prog-rock for these guys and has a more considered
approach as the song builds its shoegazey, My Bloody Valentine wall of noise
just to deliver the devastating singular vocal of “All I know is that I don’t
want to go, Breathe deeply with me”. Taco Hell might not be as whimsical as
their
More information: https://www.facebook.com/tacohellband
Listen/Buy: http://tacohellband.bandcamp.com/
Live Dates:
12th August – JT Soar, Nottingham w/Happy
Accidents + Austeros + Sun>Moon
19th August – Santiago’s, Leeds w/Splitsville +
Middle Distance + Jaded
20th September – JT Soar, Nottingham w/The Tuts +
Crywank
28th September – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham w/The
Tuts + Happy Accidents
2nd October – JT Soar, Nottingham w/Dowsing +
Ratboys