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Beach Fossils – Somersault (2017)FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz Time – 34:58 minutes 401 MB Genre: Indie Rock, Lo-FiStudio Master, Official Digital Download Front Cover © Bayonet RecordsOn their 2013 album, Beach Fossils’ main man Dustin Payseur successfully expanded his reverb-fed bedroom pop sound by including the contributions of his bandmate, guitarist Tommy Davidson, in the studio. After a long break, Beach Fossils’ 2017 album, Somersault, includes not only the studio presence of Davidson again, but bassist Jack Smith too. The pair also took on a more collaborative role in the songwriting process.
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And if that weren’t enough change, the trio brought in string sections, keyboards, flutes, Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, and rapper Cities Aviv (briefly) to help give their once claustrophobic pop sound a widescreen makeover. At their core, the songs still have all the melancholy gloom that Payseur brought to his earliest work; they also have the subtle hooks and still exude a calm warmth that makes Beach Fossils records very easy to cozy up with. This time, though, Beach Fossils take much more care with the arrangements, whether adding strings or harpsichord, adding dynamic shifts, or basically sounding like they spent some of their break studying Bacharach, or at least some Spoon. Where once their songs and records kind of rolled by in an unbroken wave of sound and bummer feels, now there is a lot more to grab onto sonically. Lots of bands try making more sophisticated music like this and end up falling on their faces because they either get to stuffy or too tricky. Beach Fossils play it just right. Their previous records were really good examples of 2010s indie pop, and the band could have just kept cranking them out for the foreseeable future and it would have been fine.
Somersault blows past them and puts the band on a new, higher level thanks to the high quotient of instantly memorable songs, the deep feelings conjured up by the melodies and the music, and the very impressively sculpted sound. Anyone who thought maybe the band’s moment had passed will be pleasantly surprised to hear that Beach Fossils are back and better than ever.
Tim SendraTracklist:01. Tangerine (feat. Rachel Goswell)03. Cities Aviv)06.
Closer Everywhere08. Social Jetlag09.
Down The Line10. Be Nothing11. That’s All For NowDownload.
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If you've followed indie's trade winds over the past year and a half, you can probably predict what a Brooklyn band called Beach Fossils sounds like to a staggeringly accurate degree. In this case, please set aside the prejudices: Beach Fossils aren't merely trying to evoke the feeling of sand between your toes, and even if you think you've mentally checked out of anything summery and lo-fi, this is a wonderful record. Dustin Payseur's Captured Tracks band claims influence from improvisational jazz, classical music, and Stereolab, and his songwriting owes more to loop-based composition than garage-bound woodshedding. From the functionality of the song titles on down, Beach Fossils has purpose and economy.
It's built on cleanly picked single notes stacked over complementary bass patterns and unobtrusive drums.Despite working in generally constricted song patterns- there's little in the way of verse/chorus structure- Payseur has no problem letting his vocals and guitar craft hooks. In fact, it's the guitar riffs that you'll probably end up humming: check the pitch-shifted Peter Hook homage on 'Daydream', the tight 'Youth', or 'Sometimes', on which Payseur falls just shy of soloing. Drift and atmosphere also work for Beach Fossils: the breezy coda of 'Window View' feels like it could drift forever as long as it handed you a lemonade part of the way through.The way Payseur's vocals are masked with reverb brings to mind the early singles of the Clientele, while the interlocking musicianship bears a lot of similarity to their tourmates in Real Estate. But while Payseur has an ingenuity with melody, what keeps him from reaching the heights of those acts is a lack of true immersion.
The Clientele's Alasdair MacLean works in miniature, capturing evocative details that we otherwise miss in our daily lives; Real Estate's Martin Courtney is big-picture, using a generalized suburbia as a backdrop for larger philosophical points. In comparison, the mundanity of Beach Fossils can be deflating, and you don't catch much on the fifth listen that you didn't on the first- a song called 'Vacation' is about taking a bus out of town, while 'Golden Age' and 'Daydream' are nearly every bit as literal.Yet the lack of guile can also be a strength, giving Beach Fossils a directness often attributed to more aggressive styles of music. Detractors might claim that this stuff isn't particularly challenging, but in light of its near-Memorial Day release date, doing so feels like criticizing white t-shirts or ice cream cones. This is an uncomplicated soundtrack for relief, which 'Lazy Day' puts forth most pointedly. It's something like the photo negative of Wavves' 'So Bored', not just sonically but philosophically- having fuck all to do isn't some sort of grounds for cracking up, but for kicking back and enjoying it.
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