Michael Lavine

TACOCAT

– ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ‘LOST TIME’ DUE APRIL 1ST VIA HARDLY ART
– SHARE NEW SINGLE ‘I HATE THE WEEKEND’
– UK TOUR DATES THIS MAY

Today, we are proud to announce ‘Lost Time’, the latest album from Seattle’s Tacocat, which is due April 1st via Hardly Art. The first single from the album ‘I Hate The Weekend’ is streaming online now & the band are set to tour the UK later this year.

Showcasing the band’s captivating, clever, socially-conscious pop-punk, leadofff single ‘I Hate the Weekend,‘ is about “the bridge-and-tunnel bros who turn their neighborhood into a toilet every weekend”. 

One of the weirdest things humans do is to classify half of all humans as niche. As though women’s shit isn’t real shit—as though menses and horses and being internet-harassed aren’t as interesting as beer-farts and monster trucks and doing the harassing. That’s why Tacocat is radical: not because a female-driven band is some baffling novelty, but because they’re a group making art about experiences in which gender is both foregrounded and neutralized. This isn’t lady stuff, it’s people stuff. It’s normal. It’s nothing and everything. It’s life.

The four actual best friends—Emily Nokes (vocals, tambourine), Eric Randall (guitar), Lelah Maupin (drums), and Bree McKenna (bass)—came together in their teens and early baby twenties and coalesced into a band eight years ago, and you can feel that they’ve built both their lives, and their sound, together. Hanging out withTacocat and listening to Tacocat are remarkably similar experiences, like the best party you’ve ever been to, where, instead of jostling for social position, everyone just wants to eat candy and talk about sci-fi, cultural dynamic shifts, and bad experiences with men.

Tacocat’s third studio album, ‘Lost Time’ (an X-Files reference, doy), is their first with producer Erik Blood. “I would describe him generally as a beautiful wizard,” Nokes said, “who, in our opinion, took the album to the next level. Wizard level.” Blood’s sounds are wide and expansive, bringing a fullness to the band’s familiar sparkling snarl. The Tacocat of Lost Time are triumphantly youthful but also plainspoken and wise, as catchy as they are substantive.

One of feminism’s biggest hurdles has always been that it isn’t allowed to be fun. Tacocat gives that notion precisely the credence that it deserves, ignoring it altogether and making fun, funny, unselfconscious pop songs about the shit they’re genuinely obsessing or groaning over: Plan B, night swimming, high school horse girls (“they know the different breeds of all their favorite steeds!”), the bridge-and-tunnel bros who turn their neighborhood into a toilet every weekend. And, eight years in, Tacocat have built something bigger than themselves. They’ve fostered a feminist punk scene in Seattle so fertile it’s going national and rendering the notion of the “girl band” even more laughable than it already was. There are no “girl bands” in Seattle anymore. There are just bands and everyone else. “Women,” Nokes jokes. “They’re just like us!”

Lost Time will be out on LP, CD, digital, and cassette formats on April 1st, 2016.

Tour dates:

2. May  UK, Nottingham / JT Soar / (Tickets)
3. May UK, Edinburgh / Electric Circus 
4. May UK, Glasgow / Broadcast / (Tickets)
5. May UK, Cardiff / The Moon Club / (Tickets)
6. May UK, Brighton / Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar / (Free)
7. May UK, London / The Lexington / (Tickets)
9. May FR, Paris / Le Mecanique Ondulature
11. May CH, Luzern / Schüür
12. May CH, Geneva / Kalvingrad L’Usine
13. May DE, Schorndorf / Manufaktur
14. May NL, Tilburg / Extase
15. May DE, Hamburg / Aalhaus
18. May SE, Stockholm / Lilla Hotellbaren
19. May NO, Oslo / Internasjonalen
20. May SE, Lund / Mejereit
21. May DK, Copenhagen / Huset
22. May DE, Berlin / West Germany

‘Lost Time’ artwork:

‘Lost Time’ tracklist:

1. Dana Katherine Scully
2. FDP
3. I Love Seatlle
4. I Hate The Weekend
5. You Can’t Fire Me, I Quit
6. The Internet
7. Plan A, Plan B
8. Talk
9. Men Explain Things To Me
10. Horse Grrls
11. Night Swimming
12. Leisure Bees

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