Beaches
Second of Spring
Release Date: Sep 8, 2017
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Noise Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
Record label: ADA
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Album Review: Second of Spring by Beaches
Very Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 4
The Upshot: What would you say to a mashup of Krautrock, shoegaze, dronerock, and the like? BY JENNIFER KELLY Beaches, the five-woman garage-psych band out of Melbourne, plays a mesmerizing blend of clatter and drone, undercutting sun dappled melodies with shifting undercurrents of buzzing tone. This double album is their third, following two previous albums that earned fervent praise in Australia; the second, Beats, featured a like-minded artist on guitar .
Based on rating 6/10
Australian psych rock quintet Beaches present distorted yet ambient shoegaze on their whopping new 17-song double-LP, Second of Spring. The record, a collection of mostly instrumental guitar jams, echoes the coastal noise pop of recent years while contributing psychedelic flavouring to the genre (think Best Coast on hallucinogens). Seemingly by design, pop-friendly hooks are rarely the focus, with energy spent instead on establishing creepy, constantly building layers of sound. The vocals are so washy that the lyrics can hardly ….
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