Tashi Delay – Queen City Sounds and Art

Tashi Delay’s “Blue” is an Operatic Post-punk Examination of Processing Trauma

The music box sound introduction to Tashi Delay’s “Blue” is a recurring device like a companion to the main rhythm line running through the song and one that introduces a whimsical element in a song about how one processes trauma. Sometimes the event hits you and you spend some moments trying to figure out how it could happen. Those music box tones are like those moments. The rest of the song has some crunch to it and a loping, menacing yet sinuous bass line and in the music video Emily Seabroke looks slightly shell shocked with a blue light partially washing out her image as her vocals follow the melodic line up and down her wide register. The image then fragments into crystalline chunks that fall way as all the sounds converge and a bluesy and noisy guitar solo burns through and fades giving way to an introspective outro that suggests that even if you overcome this immediate trauma response the mind has a way of submerging that pain only to return at a later date when you may or may not be ready to take it on from some emotional distance. Watch the video for “Blue” on YouTube and follow Tashi Delay at the links provided. Tashi Delay’s self-titled debut album became available on November 10, 2023 on Spotify.

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Tashi Delay’s “Deception” is a Surreal and Playfully Scathing Send-Up of Modern Political and Economic Malfeasance

Who can say are supposed to be the analogs in Tashi Delay’s animated music video for “Deception” but the primaries are “The Politician” and “The Banker.” The upbeat pop song with the slinky bass line is surreal as the characters get away with legal crimes just as the wealthy and powerful do in real life every day of the week. Casting the fairly scathing depiction may be playful and whimsical in presentation but the images of law officers and clergy cavorting with an array of politicians and bankers turn potential specific material world references into something more universal because we’ve all seen this dynamic play out across decades and even lifetimes. Songwriter and animator Emily Seabroke really found the perfect fusion of accessible music and visual representation thereof as a means of crafting a song with rich socio-political content without being hamfisted, a cleverly sharp edged poppy punk dart to the bloated self-importance and corruption of our era of late stage capitalism and the kind of take on these subjects it’s always refreshing to see and hear. Watch the video for “Deception” on YouTube, follow Tashi Delay at the links below and expect the debut album this fall.