BLACK TAXI
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Bio
Fully formed in 2007, Brooklyn’s BLACK TAXI is recognized as much for their wide-ranging musical influences as they are for their animated stage performance. New-Wave, Psych-Rock and twisted Garage-Blues dominate the foursome’s sound, with strong undertones of Surf and Jazz evident too. In their first full-length release, 2009’s Things of That Nature, they corrupt the traditional rock and roll line up of drums, bass, and guitar, with all manner of percussion, glockenspiel, brass arrangements, and distorted Fender Rhodes. Thick harmonies collide with stuttering guitar licks in songs that hint at The Clash, Cake, and Daft Punk, but are driven by something entirely new and infectious.
About
The sons of sheep farmers, Mennonites, rail workers and Olympians, BLACK TAXI channel their diverse histories into a barn-yard stomp that is part rock, part carnival. Tribal beats and brash melodies collide in their songs, which are thick with harmonies. BLACK TAXI carries traces of The Clash, Cake, and Daft Punk, but these Brooklynites are driven by their search for newness. They play with a fever of movement and a visceral hunger; a hot noise doused in war paint that is all soul, swagger, and sweat.
