Houston Fire Support's new single, "Taco Tuesday," would be the opening theme song if the movie were this week's hit high school movie, the indie pop-rock misfits known as HFS capture bottled breathlessness and burst the bottle open with exuberance.
The song doesn't seem to strain for world-weary wisdom, and that's why it gets away with it. The album's raw, youthful honesty punches through every beat and strikes a chord with the listener about what it felt like to first fall in love or idle away an afternoon with friends doing absolutely nothing at all.
Houston Fire Support may have given themselves the label of the misfits, but there is something about their chemistry. They're not just frying tasty riffs and saucy lines with "Taco Tuesday." They're creating a collective memory that smells vaguely of discount tacos and tastes like a golden hour through a cracked car window.