Tara Clerkin Trio

Tara Clerkin Trio at Soda Bar

21+ event w/ valid ID at Soda Bar - San Diego.

Somewhere Good is the first new music from the Bristol three-piece - Tara Clerkin, Sunny Joe Paradisos, and Patrick Benjamin – since their acclaimed 2023 mini album, On The Turning Ground. Described by Pitchfork as an “amble through blissful psych-pop and washed-out breakbeats, harpsichord interludes and dubby balladry”, it’s already on its fourth repress, as are previous releases In Spring and the 2019 self-titled debut.

Musician Ryan Davis (of Ryan Davis and the Roundhouse Band) was inspired to write about the album:

If – in some parallel universe (or perhaps a not-so-distant-future version of the one we’re already sentenced to living in) – the evil overloads of artificial intelligence were actually successful in their attempts to create convincingly enjoyable “original music,” more specifically tasked with wholly encapsulating my own personal tastes by data-chugging some cocktail of – oh, I don’t know – the posters on my wall, the records in my “most listened to” pile, the mixtapes I made for others, intensive physical scans of my auditory cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, heart strings, whatever else they have splayed out on their autopsy table with the intention of generating one all-encompassing “perfect band” based on the fruitful sum of their findings – that band, for me, would be (or would at least sound exactly like) the Tara Clerkin Trio. It is, quite simply, without exception, the music I wish to hear.

Formed in Bristol UK (where none of them are from yet all of whom are deeply engrained) in 2020, the Tara Clerkin Trio – as it somewhat democratically exists today, despite the singular authority implied by its name – consists of the titular Tara Clerkin, her partner Sunny Joe Paradisos, and Sunny’s brother, Patrick Benjamin.