{"id":923882,"date":"2026-07-31T13:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/tara-clerkin-trio-somewhere-good\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:13:17","slug":"tara-clerkin-trio-somewhere-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/tara-clerkin-trio-somewhere-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Clerkin Trio \u2013 Somewhere Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music <\/p>\n<div id=\"page\">\n<div>\n<p>Fascinating points of evolution from the singular trio&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n                                            05 \u00b7 06 \u00b7 2026                                        <\/p>\n<div>\n<article id=\"article-full\" about=\"\/news\/track-of-the-day-284-lexie-carroll\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\">\n<div property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>There\u2019s a chance you\u2019ve heard something like the music crafted by <strong>Tara Clerkin Trio<\/strong>\u2026 but we doubt it. In terms of process, and sheer sonic identity, the group (Tara Clerkin, Sunny Joe Paradisos, and Patrick Benjamin) are operating in a singular universe, a Venn diagram between jazz elasticity, dubby low-end, the plastic pop of Scritti Politti, and the post-punk of Young Marble Giants, say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their first full project since <strong><span><a href=\"https:\/\/taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com\/album\/on-the-turning-ground\">2023 release \u2018The Turning Ground\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, new album \u2018Somewhere Good\u2019 is precociously creative. Refusing to settle into any one place, opener \u2018Lake Walk\u2019 seems to ooze out of an alternative dimension, before settling into the psych-speckled summer ode \u2018Lazy Daisy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Ups &#038; Days\u2019 has a sense of the uncanny to it, while \u2018Silently\u2019 has a whisper-soft aesthetic, the Pointillist techniques illuminating their theme in sound.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a record in perpetual motion. Easy to fall for but difficult to grasp, \u2018Somewhere Good\u2019 only truly reveals its secrets after a dozen listens or so. \u2018There Was A Nice Sunset\u2019 has a painterly feel, while the arresting title track is a surreal ode worthy of late 60s Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Slow Island\u2019 recalibrates once more, before the dub excursions of finale \u2018Movin\u2019 On\u2019 are left to usher us into infinity. A gorgeous and truly hypnotic listen, \u2018Somewhere Good\u2019 is a truly original, absolutely heavenly work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Words: <strong>Robin Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tara Clerkin Trio - 'Somewhere Good' (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LS7umfhdJdw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n                                            &#8211;\n                                        <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n                                                Join the Clash mailing list for up to the minute music, fashion and film news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/reviews\/tara-clerkin-trio-somewhere-good\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Fascinating points of evolution from the singular trio&#8230; 05 \u00b7 06 \u00b7 2026 There\u2019s a chance you\u2019ve heard something like the music crafted by Tara Clerkin Trio\u2026 but we doubt it. In terms of process, and sheer sonic identity, the group (Tara Clerkin, Sunny Joe Paradisos, and Patrick Benjamin) are operating in a singular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[131522],"class_list":["post-923882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-news","tag-podcast-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}