Jesus Christ Taxi Driver self-describes as making “joyfully irreverent noise.” And after listening to the band’s latest offering, their second record called Taxi the Rich, I cannot be both more curious and more excited to see what else the Denver, Colorado based quartet does next.
The album’s lead single, and my personal favorite song off of it, the track “Too Cold to Golf” is a take-down of the billionaire class from the perspective of the boundlessly ignorant Donald Trump. Complete with lyrical references to Jeffrey Epstein and private jets and yachts, the track is performed with the same selfishness continually displayed during Trump’s time in The White House. Sonically this track is full of varied sections complete with flutes, characterized, snooty vocal delivery and groovy, danceable percussion through the track’s entire run-time. This track was the first song I checked out from the band after reading their interview with Laney Hansen of K-UTE Radio and I fell in love, listening to it repeatedly for days on end afterwards. The next song I listened to endlessly from the record was “Lana Del Rey”, the second single shared ahead of the album’s release. “Lana Del Rey” to me, speaks on identity struggles as well as the pursuit of money and success using alternative music icon Lana Del Rey as a sort of figurehead to do so. The track is catchy in similar ways to highlight tracks from The Killers record “Wonderful Wonderful”, Arcade Fire’s best album “The Suburbs” or most anything that The Black Keys have released. Lush guitars, stable drums, and a bluesy-style vocal style caused this track to earworm its way into my head.
Jesus Christ Taxi Driver has two albums out and are on the last legs of a West Coast tour at the time of my writing this. The band can be found through their website, social media feeds, and anywhere you listen to your music nowadays which, if you haven’t checked them out on Bandcamp, Spotify, or another service already, I’d encourage you to do.