A Fare to Remember: Meztli’s Taxi is the Ultimate Dreamy Indie Pop Rose-Tined Backseat Rush –

If the amorous in-Vogue escapades of Carrie Bradshaw still live rent-free in your head, Meztli’s latest single, Taxi, is more than worth the fare of your time and speakers. The independent Mexican-American singer-songwriter makes the lead single from her upcoming debut album, Love in Stereo, a rose-tinted rush, sugared by a sonic visualisation of intoxicating, bordering-on-obsessional love.

Taxi carries all the hallmarks of a dreamy indie pop earworm capable of cutting through the zeitgeist and leaving a mark as irreplicable as Lola Young’s and Chappell Roan’s. The cross-generational appeal augments the electricity of the scintillating guitars, Cigarettes After Sex-esque nostalgic atmosphere and honeyed harmonies, conveying how timelessly romanticism can glow when affixed to indie pop architecture.

Following a complete artistic rebrand from Latin pop into dreamy indie pop, Meztli co-produced Taxi with Daniel Jimenez Afanador, marking her first official production credit and a major step towards defining her own sound. Inspired by late-night drives, blurred city lights and the rush of ordinary moments becoming unforgettable through the person beside you, Taxi is the ultimate abstraction from reality. It is a steamy attack on an atomic level, with swathes of synth-pop nostalgia to deepen the tendrils of semi-innocent lust as they bed down in your psyche.

Taxi is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast