‘Taxicabs’ is a surprise new EP release from FE SALOMON.
Showcasing four tracks of Fe’s richly orchestrated and darkly adventurous alternative/pop, the EP arrives in tandem with a suitably cinematic video for its lead-single and title-track: “Taxicabs”.
From the worn taxicab backseats to the rain-spattered backstreets, the ‘Taxicabs’ EP follows a loose narrative of lives lived in the city and the disparate stories of those who course through it day-in and day-out.
Written at a point in her own career in which she was precariously balancing three different jobs to make ends meet, the songs of the ‘Taxicabs’ EP stem from a particularly personal chapter of Salomon’s life and are strewn with potent memories of people and places she encountered during that period.
As Fe explains of the new release: “The ‘Taxicabs’ EP is a melancholy romance of a city. A collection of 4 songs about survival, friendships, relationships and loneliness. It’s probably the most intimate piece of work I’ve done... These songs bring back a whirlwind of memories, good, bad and indifferent, all of which have shaped me into who I am today.”
Centred around Salomon’s intimate vocal and evocative storytelling, couplets like those in the title-track: ”the street corners they warn her, tell her what you need her to be. The city she kissed me, she swears that she’ll miss me but I don’t feel nothing you see” find Fe at her plaintive best and will haunt and enchant listeners with equal measure.
FE SALOMON – ‘TAXICABS’ – EP – OUT TODAY
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Bringing additional clout to her latest compositions, classical maestro Johnny Parry offers brooding, baroque-pop arrangements with a Vaughan-Williams-esque heft. Elsewhere, a co-write with seminal Squeeze songsmith Chris Difford (on the vulnerable “That’s Just Life”), make for a suite of songs of strident ambition that truly separate Salomon from the pack.
FE SALOMON – ‘TAXICABS’ TRACKLISTING
1. Taxicabs
2. Intuition
3. That’s Just Life
4. Shouting The Rooftops
With a debut solo album, ‘Living Rooms’, expected early-on in 2023 – watch this space for further new music from Fe Salomon in the months to come.