Tara Clerkin Trio: Somewhere Good LP

Formed in Bristol UK in 2020, the Tara Clerkin Trio consists of the titular Tara Clerkin, her partner Sunny Joe Paradisos, and Sunny's brother, Patrick Benjamin. With two extraordinary mini-albums making a splash on London's formidable World Of Echo label in wake of their self-titled 2020 debut, "Somewhere Good " is, in many ways, the band's most realised work. In running their usual gauntlet of idiosyncratic approaches, Clerkin & co. colour in and outside of compositional lines over the course of 40+ celebratory minutes - never wallowing, despite inherently somber subject matters of self-defeat, disease, displacement, restlessness, gentrification - allowing their arrangements and improvisations ample space and time to situate, stretch out, breathe, cross-pollinate, and ultimately take deeper hold on the listener's imagination - all while somehow sounding more like themselves than ever before.