Beach Fossils-This Year (Song Review)

Brooklyn’s very own Beach Fossils are back with their first piece of music since 2013’s ‘Clash The Truth’, an album so well produced people have desperately been waiting on any signs of life from the band. The first single ‘This Year’ from return LP ‘Somersault”, said to be released June 2^nd under front man Dustin Payseur’s label Bayonet Records. The single already shows the maturity this band has gained since their debut in 2010.

The song is well composed and well written by the members (Dustin Payseur, Jack Doyle Smith, Tommy Davidson), and is supposed to be first of 11 from the LP that were all made up in their collaborations. Absorbing voice tone and stringy-pop guitar riffs and a string symphony to join the melodic flow. This comes after the band has said to of shied away from basic instruments and added "more complex instrumentation, including string arrangements, piano, harpsichord, flute, and sax”.

With the sounds of the single and recent live performances, the band seems to have settled into a new pop direction and with that maybe break from their underground success into a more mainstream audience.

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Blaenavon - "Orthodox Man" (Live at WFUV)

King Gizzard And The Wizard Lizard-Flying Microtonal Banana

One of Australia’s bright under the radar talents King Gizzard and The Wizard Lizard, are in for a chaotic year as the psychedelic rock band are said to release five albums in 2017. The first comes to us under the title ‘Flying Microtonal Banana’ the band's ninth studio album since 2012’s 12 Bar Bruise. The band brings more experiments to their acid-garage rock, not shying far from their progressive style only adding raga pop influenced guitar riffs, and jazz styled tracks.

Opening track ‘Rattlesnake’, the first single released prior to the release keeps momentum with 2016’s ‘Nonagon Infinity’ fast tempo krautrock with minimal/repetitive lyrics. ‘Melting’ may be the band's ode to global warming, the jazzy drums and piano are a perfect example of the band's lack of ear to try new sounds. The other two singles from the album ‘Sleep Drifter’ and ‘Nuclear Fusion’ are both very well done raga pop progressive rock tracks with frontman Stu Mackenzie signature flute.

‘Billabong Valley’ has Old Western vibes similar to Cage the Elephants latest. Mackenzie finds no lack for his confusing choice in words “Bloodthirsty/Tendencies/Anti-Authority/Mad dog Morgan” to tell a story of a brutal death to a savage man. The album is well crafted from beginning to end showing the bands talents in making tight rock music with unordinary change-ups and continuous use of genre experimentation.

8/10

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