We first wrote about the Seattle-based outfit Tincho back in 2016 upon the release of their debut EP, Nos Vemos, describing it as “fall[ing] somewhere between the college and garage variety, with a few sprinklings of dream pop for good measure.” Led by Marty Kaleta, the band has undergone a number of changes in the interim, switching from solo project to full band and back again and being interrupted by job offers in South America.
A full-length record was written during time as a full band in Seattle, and now that three of the four members have since departed, it’s being labelled as the ‘Seattle album’ of the Tincho timeline. After literally years of mastering, Tincho are finally gearing up toward the release of the record, and are unveiling a series of singles in the run up.
Last month saw the peppy ‘I Got Home Today’, a love song aimed not toward a special person but a special place. “It was written while I was reading a book on lost places in Seattle,” Kaleta explains, “and even though I did not grow up there nor knew any of these places, I couldn’t help but feel like I had been.” The single is written from the perspective of a transplant trying to imagine the feelings of a local as their once familiar city transforms slowly before their eyes. Many an urban space is subject to gentrification these days, but Seattle, with its burgeoning tech industry, is experiencing it more severely and rapidly than most. ‘I Got Home Today’ is an elegy for an old city, one slowly disintegrating beneath polished glass and steel.
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Today, we’re excited to share a brand new single, ‘Clementine’. Adopting a heavier, more shoegaze-inspired tone than the previous song, the single possesses a crepuscular air, a sound for that time of evening when the sun has dropped yet night has not quite won out. This interplay between light and dark is indicative of a track concerned with bittersweet emotions, where pain and desire are intertwined into one desperate thread.