Following acclaim for last year’s debut album Chaos, and a recent tour with new wave legends Bow Wow Wow, Cambridgeshire’s finest feminist garage-punks The Baby Seals are sharing a fierce new single about getting stuck in a trance-like state in an online shop. ‘Tamoo Trance’ via Trapped Animal Records.

Racing with a seething, swirling energy and gritty raw emotion, ‘Tamoo Trance’ offers a fierce take down of consumer capitalism and the effect it can have on us if we let it take it hold. With lyrics such as “… don’t go on / don’t get sucked in cause 80% of what you buy goes directly in the bin”, it showcases the band’s ability to combine their trademark playful tongue-in-cheek wit with a voracious sense of rage. Front woman Kerry explains: 

“… (it’s) about noticing how quickly we get entrapped online into spending money, and spending the latest form of currency, our attention, and questioning how to break away from it.  It’s about how horrifying excess is. The fictitious shop, Tamoo, which looks like it should come with a gamblers aware warning sign, stocks everything you’ve never wanted, and it’s not just your money it will cost you being there.”

With perhaps a darker energy than we may be used to from the band, ‘Tamoo Trance’ loses none of The Baby Seals’ empowering, impassioned spirit and heavy fuzz-laden hooks, whilst encouraging us to rally against this definitely fictitious shop and all that it represents.