The Taxpayers, formed in Portland, OR, are back from hiatus with a follow-ups to 2016's Big Delusion Factory. The new album is to be called Circle Breaker, out March 21 via Ernest Jenning Record Co. The band also introduced two new singles today: "Circle Protector" and "Evil Everywhere."
Rob Taxpayer adds come context to the title track:
The day before "Circle Protector" was written, I ran into my friends Katie and Will, who were loading an amp into the back of a car about a block from my house. They were heading to a house show in the next neighborhood over. You should come," they said. But me and Elise had free tickets to see the stage adaptation of Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill and babysitters for our six-month-old (our first date night in months). So we hopped back on our bikes and told them to have fun. "Maybe we’ll stop by after the musical."
I found out the next day that there had been a shooting at that house show. Some random guys had wandered in thinking it was a house party, tried to hit on a few people who weren’t interested, and opened fire on their way out. An old friend had been killed, a victim of a stray bullet.
I learned about this as I held my sleeping baby in my arms, grappling with the fact that my friend had been murdered a handful of blocks from where my baby slept. That night, I lit a bundle of old dried lemongrass and walked a protective circle around my home.
The Taxpayers Tour Dates:
March 27 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Underground
March 28 - Chicago, IL @ WC Social Club
March 29 - Detroit, MI @ The Loving Touch
Track List:
1. Circle Protector
2. Evil Everywhere
3. I Am One Thousand
4. At War With the Dogcatchers
5. Empty Shed
6. Nobody is a Lost Cause
7. Constant Headlines
8. Nightmarish Population
9. Everything Will Be Different
10. Everything is Dreaming
11. Naked Trees
12. Future Island
13. Outline of Your Blood
