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Add to playlist: the disaster-baiting jazz-rock brinkmanship of Taupe and the week’s best new tracks
EntertainmentMusicMusic News•April 24, 2026 at 12:00 PMNational

Add to playlist: the disaster-baiting jazz-rock brinkmanship of Taupe and the week’s best new tracks

By Katie Hawthorne, Sundus Abdi, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes•The Guardian Music

The trio combine sludgy rock, homemade electronics and squawking into a watertight groove that makes light work of their complex musicianshipFrom Glasgow, ScotlandRecommended if you like Horse Lords, Melt-Banana, abrasive saxophoneUp next Album out now, touring the UK and Ireland from JuneTaupe’s lawless mix of “not jazz”, sludgy rock and homemade electronics hits like a shock of cold water to the face. The Glasgow-based trio are a formidable live band: thunderously loud, crushingly tight, quick to surrender all control and trust-fall their way through wild improvisations. Their third album, Waxing | Waning, out now on Prague’s Minority Records, finally captures that power, as well as the band’s oddball humour and free-flowing imagination. Continue reading...

The trio combine sludgy rock, homemade electronics and squawking into a watertight groove that makes light work of their complex musicianship

From Glasgow, Scotland
Recommended if you like Horse Lords, Melt-Banana, abrasive saxophone
Up next Album out now, touring the UK and Ireland from June

Taupe’s lawless mix of “not jazz”, sludgy rock and homemade electronics hits like a shock of cold water to the face. The Glasgow-based trio are a formidable live band: thunderously loud, crushingly tight, quick to surrender all control and trust-fall their way through wild improvisations. Their third album, Waxing | Waning, out now on Prague’s Minority Records, finally captures that power, as well as the band’s oddball humour and free-flowing imagination.

Continue reading...

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