Adelaide indie rock duo Teenage Joans pump up the jam with their brand new single 5 Things I Can Taste out today.
Loaded with glossy bounce and a karaoke-ready chorus, the track comes hot on the heels of previous single Candy Apple which accompanied the announcement of the duo’s debut album The Rot That Grows Inside My Chest, due out on Friday 13 October via Domestic La La.
Propulsive, catchy and with some punk-stained bite lining its pop-soaked core, 5 Things I Can Taste was one of the final tracks conjured for The Rot That Grows Inside My Chest, with a clever lyrical structure for the eagle-eared that accompanies the single’s ode to an anxiety grounding technique.
“5 Things I Can Taste was the last song we wrote for the album,” shares the band of their latest single. “When we were looking for the missing piece, we realised we wanted to write a fast-paced, almost punk song to top off the album. The lyric structure is pretty interesting too – each line starts with the last word of the line before it. As “counting 5 things you can see” is a mechanism to help ground yourself when experiencing anxiety, we wanted the lyrics to feel sporadic and chaotic, kind of how anxious thoughts feel.”
