Taxes, the brainchild of Californian singer/songwriter Robby Cronholm, is the sound of desperate energy vacillating between tender interludes and biting crescendos. Their music is uncompromising in its pursuit of honesty and understanding, with Cronholm and company attacking the dramas of the self with an arsenal of intelligent lyrics, curiously shifting dynamics, and fierce bouts of distortion. While an expansive emotional core provides the power behind their style, the label “emo” feels a bit reductive; there is an undeniable and layered grace keeping Taxes cohesive, one that pulls inspiration from genres historically described as “heart-on-your-sleeve” but never once driving them into caricature. Lucky for you, we have the exclusive pleasure of streaming Taxes’ new album It Never Ends before it drops from Breakup Records on the 21st. Check out these seven songs and get lost in tracks that beg you to sing along and sway.
It Never Ends is out from Breakup Records 10/21.
