Taxi Girls
Static (colored)
Montreal's Taxi Girls don't so much arrive as they crash through the door, guitars first, voices raised, and something urgent to say. Formed in 2022, the all-female quartet have quickly carved out a space for themselves in the city's ever-restless underground, channelling garage punk grit into something hook-heavy, immediate and unmistakably their own. Their debut album Static captures that ascent in real time. It's a record that hums with tension and release, where blown-out guitars meet sharp melodic instincts, and where dual vocalists Jamie Radu and Vera circle each other with a restless energy, trading lines, clashing perspectives, then locking together with intent. The effect feels instinctive rather than constructed, as if the songs are unfolding mid-conversation, half-confession, half-confrontation. For Fans of: The Donnas, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Nikki Corvette, Bikini Kill, The Runaways, Amyl and the Sniffers, The Interrupters, The Distillers and The No Talents