{"id":7079,"date":"2015-10-26T16:06:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-beach-slang-things-people-do-to\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T21:20:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:20:47","slug":"album-review-beach-slang-things-people-do-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-beach-slang-things-people-do-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Beach Slang – Things People Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BeachHailing from Philadelphia but with a distinctly Californian feel about them, Beach Slang<\/b> have come up with a memorable debut album that is packed to the rafters with passionate odes and serves as a rallying call to misfits the world over.<\/p>\n

‘Things People Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us’<\/i> rocks along on the back of layers of punk-tinged guitars and infectious melodies. After the noisy opening of ‘Throwaways’<\/i> and its straightforward mid tempo rock, the more measured ‘Bad Art and Weirdo Ideas’<\/i> comes along full of airy riffing and lazy pop sensibilities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

There’s a continual theme of music and alcohol as a way of dealing with problems that will no doubt appeal to the disenchanted of the world. ‘Break Guitars’<\/i> and ‘Noisy Heaven’<\/i> are all rousing guitar lines and they both rock intensely, while ‘Ride the Wild Haze’<\/i> has a hard driving sound and plenty for the kids: “I feel most alive when I’m listening to every record that hits harder than the pain.\u201d<\/i> The acoustic strum, delicate touches of piano and light orchestration of the lament ‘Too Late to Die Young’<\/i> is even more fuel for fucked up rock \u2018n\u2019 rollers.<\/p>\n

It does start to wear a little thin by the second half of the record though, with ‘Porno Love’<\/i> and ‘Dirty Lights’<\/i> both falling a little flat, although the pure punk pop of ‘Hard Luck Kid’<\/i> hits the spot, despite its questionable sentiment of, "Why even try?”<\/i> Even so, ‘Young and Alive’<\/i> is interesting and fervent with coolly-done percussion and stop-start riffing, the searing guitars and shout along refrain sure to make a great set closer.<\/p>\n

All told, there’s plenty of quality punk-ish rock on display here and more than enough “we are the kids who won’t do what we’re told”<\/i> sentiment for teenage earbuds to revel in.<\/p>\n

3.5\/5<\/p>\n

‘Things People Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us’<\/em> by Beach Slang<\/strong> is released on 30th October on Big Scary Monsters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Beach Slang<\/strong> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Edward Layland (@EdwardLayland<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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