THIS IS A PRE-ORDER: We expect this to ship on or around JUNE 5th, 2026. Any items ordered with this will be held until they can ship together. If you need other items faster please place a separate order.

With two extraordinary mini-albums making a splash on Londons World of Echo label in wake of their self-titled 2020 debut, Somewhere Good is, in many ways, the Tara Clerkin Trio's most realised work. In running their usual gauntlet of idiosyncratic approaches, Clerkin & co. color in and outside of compositional lines over the course of 40+ celebratory minutes - never wallowing, despite inherently somber subject matters of self-defeat, disease, displacement, restlessness, gentrification - allowing their arrangements and improvisations ample space and time to situate, stretch out, breathe, cross-pollinate, and ultimately take deeper hold on the listeners imagination all while somehow sounding more like themselves than ever before.

Of course, there are traceable influences herein.. Being the big dumb American from the small boring town that I am, cornfed on 90s alternative radio with the enchantingly exotic sounds of Maxinquaye and Mezzanine emanating from my chunky tube television, I cant help but to make a blatantly obvious reference to a Bristol sound, ie the whole trip-hop trip, the pastoral crooning over the suggestive urban grime of cracked electro/piano treatments, the digitally-yet-primitively reconstructed James Bond soundtrack string-beats, etc.. But the Tara Clerkin Trio is so infinitely much more than that. There are elements of avant-pop, modern classical, kraut-folk, audio verit, dare I say indie rock (and not of the beer guzzling, masturbatory fuzz-flex variety but perhaps more like a Trish Keenan-fronted Faust, Adrian Sherwood at the mixing desk of If Youre Feeling Sinister, or in expanding on our alternate reality a world in which High Llamas cut a full-length for Warp Records with Andrew Weatherall on coffee duty).
Ryan Davis (Chicago, February 2026)

Street Date 6/5/26