Italy’s Talco Release “Videogame” Album

Talco have returned with a new album! After weathering the pandemic hurricane by masterfully riding the stormiest waves of their career with the side project, Talco Maskerade, and revving up with the Insert Coin EP, it’s now time for the Italian band to release their highly anticipated new work, Videogame, that is now available via Punkchanka Records and Long Beach Records.

After the release of the diy EP Insert Coin, the band’s DeLorean takes us back in time to February 2020 in pre-pandemic with the album Videogame, that was recorded by Marc Boria at Labedoble Estudi and mixed & mastered by Jason Livermore at the Blasting Room Studio. The album contains 15 tracks of SoCal influenced punk rock, with the horns leading the sing-a-long in the aggressive and party-going style of Talco. Videogame is an important album for the band, which shuffles the cards by inserting at the same time a committed actitude with an introspective path in which the theme of fear is analyzed in all its facets.

“The garage and the jukebox are metaphorically two sides of the same coin, one connected to the other: they represent the isolation of the writer, considered by his environment a cold, automatic dispenser of ideas, but who, far from the frenetic lights of the show, manages to protect in a corner of solitude the best moments of his life, thanks to writing. From there he sets off again for a new video game. A song about the unconditional love of writing and making music, in a creative oasis hidden from everyone, where passion is kept intimately safe, away from a precarious environment that turns it into cold merchandise, as if it were a jukebox waiting for a yes or a thumbs down.”