Brisbane indie rockers Tape/Off return with powerful new single Paris, Texas, Queensland, a lazy six years after dropping their acclaimed second album Broadcast Park. This new single is the first taste of their highly-anticipated third album Fort Sensible, and are celebrating with a run of shows hitting the East Coast capitals!
The intensely catchy Paris, Texas, Queensland is an ode to Tape/Off’s home state of Queensland, a warts-and-all love letter to the tropical paradise which has for so long languished in the shadows of shady politics and harsh commercial realities.
Despite name-checking a stream of defiantly Brisbane and Queensland iconography, listeners anywhere and everywhere will be able to relate to that nagging dichotomy in Paris, Texas, Queensland between unconditional love for the place where you grew up and your friends and family are found, and being honest about its many flaws and failings. This ever-oscillating love-hate relationship which Tape/Off outlines in Paris, Texas, Queensland is further captured in the song’s eye-catching and defiantly Queensland film clip, fittingly filmed and directed by Luke Henery (from Brisbane hometown heroes Violent Soho).
The rousing Paris, Texas, Queensland is the perfect interaction to Fort Sensible – the follow-up to previous efforts Chipper (2014) and Broadcast Park (2018), both long-listed for the prestigious Australian Music Prize – a labour of love which has culminated in the best representation yet of Tape/Off’s distinctive aesthetic, fusing both the power of punk and the intricacy of post-rock into an indie rock amalgam as unique as it is enticing.
And excitingly for fans along the East Coast, Tape/Off will be bringing their notoriously exhilarating live show to select venues in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, with a wonderful array of like-minded local talent hand-picked to accompany them at each locale.
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