This Mess is a Place, Tacocats fourth full-length and first on Sub Pop, finds the band waking up the morning after the 2016 election and figuring out how to respond to a new reality where evil isnt hiding under the surface at all-its front and center, with new tragedies and civil rights assaults filling up the scroll of the newsfeed every day. "What a time to be barely alive," laments "Crystal Ball," a gem that examines the more intimate side of responding emotionally to the news cycle. How do you keep fighting when all you want to do is stay in bed all day? "Stupid computer stupor/Oh my kingdom for some better ads," Nokes sings, throwing in some classic Tacocat snark,"Truth spread so thin/It stops existing."