Is Brooklyn the center of the world? Manhattan-ites may beg to differ, but there’s been no healthier musical epicenter these last five years than the kids across the Williamsburg Bridge. The National, The Drums, Grizzly Bear, Sufjan Stevens and many more alt stars call Brooklyn their home, as do the four members of pop-punk upstarts Black Taxi. With their second album We Don’t Know Any Better (available tomorrow) Ezra Huleatt (vocals/keys/trumpet), Bill Mayo (guitar/vocals/triangle), Krisanan Soponpong (bass), and Jason Holmes (drums/vocals) out-stroke The Strokes on opener “Tightrope,” bring Men at Work to electro on current single “Hand,” and channel ’90s alt-vets Cake on the kicky title track. There are a lot of influences – and a lot of borrowed parts – that keep this Black Taxi, and you, moving.
