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Batrider: Tara

Walking the wet, isolated streets home, late, in holey shoes was the perfect setting to blast Batrider’s first full length album. If I had pre-planned this situation, a plaid shirt and a relationship break-up would have been added for better effect. Regardless, this album sucked me in completely. It could sit alongside any staple ‘90s grunge albums with its brutal honesty of hopelessness, isolation, depression and desperation. Dad, also on their EP ‘Take Me Back’ sees the darkest desperate feeling creep in through the crunching guitar and uncontrolled angst in Sarah Chadwick’s vocals. I Never Feel Like I’m Here brought the rain pouring down in a most indulgently depressing way. ‘Tara’ will affect you. If you want a soundtrack to discordantly muse over a broken-heart, overcome a bad day, or just want to relish in the intense honesty put out there by this ex-Wellington 4-piece, then put it on and scream it out with Batrider. As a limited edition ‘Tara’ comes with the bonus ‘Pink Guitars and Yellow Stars’, a stripped back acoustic 7-track disc mixing known and previously unreleased songs. Free of the signatory howls and distorted guitars it provides a less confrontational door to the lyrical and arranging talents of Batrider.

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