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Taxi Joe์ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ ๊ท ์จ๋ฒ **Medicine**์ ์ ์ Concussion ์ดํ ํ์ธต ํ์ฅ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์
์ ์คํํธ๋ผ์ ๋ด์ ์ํ์ด๋ค. ๊ฑฐ์น ์ธ๋ ํ์ ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก, ์ด์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๊น๊ณ ์ฌ์ธํด์ง ์ฌ์ด๋๋ฅผ ๋ด์๋ด๊ณ ์ ํ๋ค.
๊ฐ๋ ฌํ ๋ฆฌ๋ฌ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ง ๊ธฐํ ์ฌ์ด๋๋ฅผ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ํํ์ ๋ํด Taxi Joe๋ง์ ์๊น์ ์์ฑํ๋ค. 10๋์ ๋ฐํญ๋ถํฐ ๋
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์ ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊น์ง ์ถ์ ๋ค์ํ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋
ธ๋ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋ด๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ๋ฑ์ ์์งํ๊ฒ ํ์ด๋ด๊ณ ์ ํ๋ค.
ํนํ, Taxi Joe์ ์๊ทธ๋์ฒ๋ผ ํ โ๋ฉํฐ ๋ฆฌ๋๋ฏธ์ปฌ(Multi-rhythmic)โ ์ฌ์ด๋๋ ์ด๋ฒ ์จ๋ฒ์์ ๋์ฑ ์ ๊ตํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฌ์๋ค. ํญ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์๋์ง์ ํธ๋๋ถํฐ ๋ช
์์ ์ธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์ **โMy Last Breathโ**๊น์ง ์ด์ด์ง๋ ํ๋ฆ์ ํตํด ์จ๋ฒ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ค์ํ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ธด์ฅ๊ณผ ๋ชฐ์
์ ๋ด์๋๋ค.
๋ง์ง๋ง์ ์ฅ์ํ๋ **โSon Of A Preacher Manโ**์ **Dusty Springfield**์ ๋ช
๊ณก์ Taxi Joe๋ง์ ์คํ์ผ๋ก ์ฌํด์ํ ์ปค๋ฒ ๋ณด๋์ค ํธ๋์ด๋ค. ์ต์ํ ๋ฉ๋ก๋ ์์ Taxi Joe์ ์ฌ์ด๋๋ฅผ ๋ํด ์จ๋ฒ์ ์ฌ์ด์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ค.
Medicine์ Taxi Joe๊ฐ ์ถ๊ตฌํด์จ ์์
์ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ์ ๋์ฑ ๋๋ ทํ๊ฒ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ์จ๋ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ด ์จ๋ฒ์ ์์์ผ๋ก ์์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง Taxi Joe์ ์๋ก์ด ์ฌ์ ๋ํ ๊ธฐ๋ํด ์ฃผ๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋ค.
ยซ Taxi Joeโs forthcoming album Medicine, out March 27rd, 2026, is their most ambitious and emotionally expansive release to date. Building on the raw, aggressive indie-pop energy of their previous album Concussion, the trio push their sound into more mature, nuanced territory, sharpening their intensity while learning when to let it breathe. Across the record, Taxi Joe balance grit with grace, pairing muscular rhythms and angular guitar work with moments of restraint, atmosphere, and aching melody.
Lyrically, Medicine unfolds as a loose narrative that traces a life from defiant teenage bravado through adulthood and into old age, confronting the inevitability of mortality along the way. Themes of loneliness, worthlessness, love, companionship, and belonging surface repeatedly, painting an unflinching portrait of mental health and the quiet battles that shape us over time.
Joe Acresโ vocals remain as raw and expressive as ever, shifting effortlessly from confrontational urgency to fragile introspection.
Musically, the bandโs signature multi-rhythmic interplay continues to set them apart, but itโs wielded with greater sophistication, rhythms weave, recede, and collide to serve the emotional weight of each song rather than sheer impact alone.
From explosive, cathartic moments to darker, more contemplative passages like My Last Breath, Medicine thrives on contrast, tension, and release. The result is an album that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant: a bold statement from a band unafraid to evolve, confront uncomfortable truths, and find beauty in vulnerability. ยป
[Track List]
01 Dopamine
02 This One's Mine
03 Shut Up
04 Where The Strange Ones Go
05 My Last Breath
06 Tomorrow Finally Came
07 Time Travelling
08 Square Pegs, Square Holes
09 Circus
10 Then I'd Be Home
11 Son Of A Preacher man (cover bonus track)