The Baby Seals – Tamoo Trance (Trapped Animal)
Following on from 2024 album Chaos Cambridgeshire pop punks The Baby Seals release single Tamoo Trance, taking aim at rampant consumerism to a dirty, grungy but still playful sound
Artist: The Baby Seals
Track: Tamoo Trance
Label: Trapped Animal
Released:
Find it: YouTube | Bandcamp
Rampant consumerism has made lotus eaters of us all, as our idleness is doom-scrolling online shopping, and we forget not only the time passing as we do this, but the difference between need and want, and perhaps ourselves entirely. It is at our participation in the death spiral of late stage capitalism that The Baby Seals take aim on new single Tamoo Trance.
Frontwoman Kerry says Tamoo Trance is, “… about noticing how quickly we get entrapped online into spending money, and spending the latest form of currency, our attention, and questioning how to break away from it. It’s about how horrifying excess is. The fictitious shop, Tamoo, which looks like it should come with a gamblers aware warning sign, stocks everything you’ve never wanted, and it’s not just your money it will cost you being there.”
‘Annoyingly practical and useful things / like micro fibre wrist bands and LED lighting rings / don’t go on, don’t get stuck in / cause 80% of what you buy goes directly in the bin’
With gritty, indie rock riffs and wry lyrics, there is playfulness and frustration in equal measure. There’s churning, repeating melody and breathy, half-spoken vocals through the verses, and a big gang vocal chorus you can’t help but get involved in. The seething energy sparring with how exhausted we are with consumerism has me in mind of both The Breeders and Elastica without this being anything but completely The Baby Seals.
Tamoo Trance by The Baby Seals is out now digitally and on limited double-A 7″ vinyl single via Trapped Animal.
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Sarah Lay
A long-standing music journalist she's also co-founder of independent record label Reckless Yes, an author of novels, and when not messing around with words and music, a digital strategist.
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