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Menace Beach - Lowtalker
3 StarsA composed collection of tracks.
To record ‘Lowtalker’, Menace Beach spent four days at MJ’s (Hookworms) Suburban Home Studios, digesting pizza, coffee and falafel to fuelling a rapid recording session. The group features members of Sky Larkin, Hookworms and You Animals as well as Mansun vocalist Paul Draper, who contributes vocals and guitars on some tracks. Honing in on the 90s-influenced rock that debut EP ‘Dream Out’ and last year’s Too Pure double A-side ‘Dropouts / Tastes Like Medicine’ provided, the group refresh their relative infancy with five tracks “getting better, making friends and trying to reconnect mentally and spiritually”
The result is a composed collection of tracks, with founders Liza Violet and Ryan Needham a perfect foil for each other with their bleary and bratty vocals coming to the fore on tracks like ‘Fortune Teller’ and ‘Where I Come From’. ‘Honolulo’ shows their murkier side, channelling their ear for shoegaze with heavy swathes of tremolo and reverb competing with timorous vocals. Closing track ‘Cheerleader’ is all out fuzz and breakdown and alongside ‘Nervous’, it gives the release a refreshed, more angular feeling than Needham’s past group Komakino produced.
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Menace Beach - Black Rainbow Sound
4 Stars
Motorik beats, distorted guitars, electro-clash synths and complementary vocal interplay.
31st August 2018, 7:57am
Menace Beach share ‘Black Rainbow Sound’ video
The Leeds duo's new album of the same name is out next month.
4th July 2018, 12:00am
Menace Beach announce new album ‘Black Rainbow Sound’ with the dark, probing title track ft Brix Smith
The new record is out in August via Memphis Industries.
13th June 2018, 12:00am
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