Muck marks the second single off Mirages, the debut full length from Tijuana Taxi. What started as a stripped-down acoustic idea from frontman Jim Ritchie was gradually reshaped into a sprawling, two-part number.
The song opens in a hushed, fragile manner, with uneasy chords and minimal instrumentation, before detonating into a frenzy of distortion, screams, and pounding drums. That contrast kind of sums it up, echoing the stress of time slipping away mixed with the uncertainty about what’s coming next.
Once a simple voice-and-guitar sketch, Muck has evolved into a towering emotional storm, part shoegaze haze, part post rock catharsis. With lo-fi textures colliding against explosive crescendos, the Toronto trio channels vulnerability into something genre-defying and comprehensive.
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