Tacocat - "I Hate the Weekend" [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

May 2016: Bright colours and a shedload of sugar, yep, that's what you want on Christmas Day!

'I Hate The Weekend' is taken from one of the finest albums of the year for me. 'Talk' was intense, like the middle ground between late period Go-Go's and mid period Sleater-Kinney, and very timely (topic wise...) 'The Internet' was questioning and similarly apt, subject wise, whereas this has ranty power pop written all over it.

I like to think of the video as Christmas Day summarised into three and a half minutes. Unintentionally so, obviously.

Get off the internet!

Although I still like 'Talk' the best, I am really enjoying the new Tacocat video for 'The Internet', which skilfully pastiches much of the online mores of today.

It's a more complex message than that of Le Tigre, but that's probably because 'Get Off The Internet' was released sixteen years ago now. When apathy and lethargy were the main perils of online life...

Modern Time Wasting

I've been meaning to blog about Tacocat for a while. I reviewed their third album, Lost Time, last month for The F-Word and had one of those 'Eureka!' moments while listening to the final song on the album ('Leisure Bees'), where I thought 'Hang on, this is all about time wasting, isn't it? Or, more accurately, time being wasted in different ways'. Maybe 'Eureka!' is over the top, as the clue is in the album title, but even so, it was a theme that crept up on me rather than battering me around the ears immediately.

And so to current single (and my favourite track from the album) 'Talk', which tells the story of a relationship being destroyed by a third party. In this instance, the smartphone. Given that the iPhone is nine years old now, and that smartphones are so ubiquitous (for the sake of context: I don't own one) they don't seem to have permeated song lyrics quite so much as I think texting did. The academic studies are starting to emerge though, you know, the ones detailing the havoc smartphones are causing to relationships, sleep patterns, and social etiquette. So it's refreshing to hear a song that lays down these concerns in such a clever, convincing and simple manner.

Hardly Art have some cracking bands on their roster, so I'm expecting good things to come over the next twelve months or so.