NOIR’s new EP, “Breath and Taxes” was released today by the Pittsburgh, PA-based label Distortion Productions featuring remixes from genCAB, Iszoloscope, along with collaborators cellist Tracey Di Lascio-Martinuk, programmer Dominic Smelt and engineer Xris Smack. “Breath and Taxes” is a surreally sarcastic song about the contradictions of cults and capitalism that has roots in 1993, when it was the very first song NOIR vocalist Athan Maroulis co-wrote as a member of Spahn Ranch. Oddly enough, the idea for the lyrics emanates from when Maroulis was actually a member of Executive Slacks who were about to play at Scream in Los Angeles in 1990. There, Maroulis attended a serial killer art exhibit at a gallery in Hollywood. Complete with a gift shop, Maroulis found it so fascinatingly absurd that he later penned the lyrics about what he saw that day. “Breath and Taxes” is available on all streaming services and digital platforms.
BANDCAMP:
noirnyc.bandcamp.com/album/breath-and-taxes