MORE ON TELL THE TRUTH
"Tell the Truth" by Glass Taxi is an exploration of the chasm between promises made and promises broken within the landscape of personal relationships, echoing the broader societal disillusionment in an era of digital immediacy and emotional commodification. The song deftly articulates the feeling of being ensnared by empty vows, set against a backdrop where physical presence is often substituted by a fleeting digital fog that allows for the emotional unavailability that pervades our times. "Tell the Truth" is a critique of the superficial connections and societal hierarchies that leave us longing for something more substantial than the hollow offerings of power and prestige, and the gatekeeping they involve.

Backed by shimmering, moving synths, the song weaves through broken promises and the deft maneuvering of the narrator, before finding a lush, dreamlike reverie where, finally, Glass Taxi defies the very power dynamics they critique, asserting our intrinsic claim to life as living creatures. "Tell the Truth" marks Glass Taxi's ability to distill complexity into powerful, anthemic, and honest songcraft, urging listeners to reject manipulative narratives and embrace a collective truth that acknowledges and honors our interconnectedness.

ABOUT GLASS TAXI
Glass Taxi is an unapologetic love letter to music in all of its forms — distilling memory and intuition into song, visuals, and experience. Songwriters and musicians, Matt Norris and Melissa Burgess, have joined visions to create compelling, whimsical, freewheeling music, with the motto: Nothing is off the table.

The duo has forged this path with a steady string of releases, leaping from the anthemic chamber pop of Take It, to the gutter funk of Whose Ringing Your Bell, to the classic punk power of Copman.

Grotesqualizer said of the song Time Sukking: "Glass Taxi superbly presents an extravaganza of joy in a distinctive sound. Disco-goth synths, dance floor misterio-smoke, the strange choir conducted by a robot, and woozy carnival percussion rhythms plunge you into a dream where everything is connected by electrifying, unpredictable, odd flair."

American Pancake also weighs in on the recent single Following you — “The mercurial, slow ascensions of "Following You" by Glass Taxi, the avant indie rock / dream pop duo of Melissa Burgess and Matt Norris, feels like it is constructed of delicate material, strong but fragile, beautiful but functional, if that makes any sense. Built on frameworks of sounds that feel self aware there is also a precarious aura here, a sense of subversion or flammability while things are burning close by.”

Their next single, Tell the Truth, is a shimmering and defiant stab at gatekeeping and power, mastered at Coda Room Audio (London/Chicago) by James Auwarter.

Songwriting, for us, has been inspired by time living & traveling abroad. Our music listening went from a deliberate pressing of “play” to a matter of complete happenstance — catching songs in transport vans, shops, and on the street. Factors of language and catchiness come to bear in how pop music sticks, and unmoored from our usual contexts we began to delight in the randomness of transmission; this playlist built from complete chance. Each of the songs we release this year will ultimately play through that filter: Eschewing a dominant sound that impacts every track, for something more curated & exploratory. Something that translates in the immediate.

We want to build kind of a Wunderkammer of songs and sounds. A Wunderkammer is a cabinet for curiosities, a place to collect otherwise unrelated fascinations, a catalog of wonders. The point is simply to follow our most intense musical obsessions ruthlessly.

Friends since high school, Matt Norris and Melissa Burgess started sending songs back and forth during 2020. Melissa was a portrait painter in Atlanta when she began collaborating with Matt long-distance, pulling from her love of songwriting and art, as well as her experience as a classically-trained pianist. Matt was a fixture in the Atlanta music scene, playing in groups across genres and opening for bands as varied as Deerhunter, Mugison, and, randomly, Mumford & Sons. In 2015 he sold all his possessions (except musical instruments) and left the States, living in Berlin, Krakow, Taichung, and London, before settling in Poznan, Poland