Taupe’s latest album release, waxing | waning delivers jazz experimentalism, ‘skronk’, avant-rock, and electronics, by the Glasgow-based trio, due out now on Minority Records. Across its seven tracks, waxing | waning captures Taupe’s approach – bold and boundarypushing – shaped by a fresh shift in the band’s dynamic and compositional approach.

Taupe’s waxing | waning, co-composed and realised by its players in a studio that was once an undertaker’s premises in Glasgow, is an absolutely affirmative album, an act of cultural defiance in desperate times.

Comprising Mike Parr-Burman (guitar, bass guitar, electronics), Jamie Stockbridge (alto and baritone saxophones) and Alex Palmer (drum kit, percussion), Taupe work up a storm of skronk, free jazz and harmolodic frenzy whose closest relations include Zu, Melt Banana and John Zorn. However, waxing | waning is from its opening, stuttering blasts, an exercise in seeking out and claiming new territory, finding unique and novel permutations in which jazz, rock, electronics interbreed at breakneck pace. Here is a group determined to say and do things they don’t get to say and do elsewhere in their musical lives.

Taupe are a Glasgow-based trio whose free(math)avant(skronk) concoctions fuse sour sonics, effervescent improvisation and sludgy, doom-laden riffage into a sound both unruly and sharply honed. Often seeming to operate by a kind of spooky telekinesis, they pivot from turbulent, unwieldy chaos into taut, metronomic precision, cultivating an approach that feels both volatile and vividly alive. Steeped in a DIY ethos, Taupe balance wonky charm with exacting focus, bridging the no-wave disorder of DNA or James Chance with the squeaky-clean intricacy of groups like goat (jp) and Horse Lords, all while maintaining an anarchic spirit that takes any pretensions out to the woodshed.

Experimental trio Taupe erupt onto the sonic landscape with their new single “Lemonade Tycoon”, out 13 November 2025. The single offers a tantalizing glimpse of Taupe’s third album, waxing | waning, set for release on 6 March 2026 via Czech label Minority Records.

Lemonade Tycoon nods playfully to the classic business simulation game of the same name while forging a sound wholly its own. Its final sequence, a live drum improvisation captured via a saxophone clip-on mic and routed through saxophonist Jamie Stockbridge’s intricate effects pedal chain, creates a spectral echo, sparkling and chaotic like shaken lemonade, simultaneously precise and unruly.

Taupe’s concoction of free(math)avant(skronk) moves fluidly between sour sonics, effervescent improvisations, and sludgy, doom-laden riffs. The trio wields an almost spooky telekinesis, pivoting from taut, metronomic precision to turbulent chaos with effortless grace. Ever-informed by a DIY ethos, their music carries a wonky charm, bridging the nostalgic disorder of no-wave icons like DNA and James Chance with the squeaky-clean precision of contemporary experimentalists such as Goat (JP) and Horse Lords (USA). Live, their performances rumble with a fun, anarchic spirit, discarding pretension and self-seriousness in favor of kinetic, immersive sound.