Friday, July 9, 2010

#118 Beach Fossils - Beach Fossils

I'm sure countering that prog kick with a new indie kick. This got mentioned alongside Wavves in a slate article, and I think on pitchfork as well.

Its curiously agreeable, languid, simple poppy rock. Drum machine beat, some arpeggios, a slightly surfey guitar line, some reverbed-out vocals, and you've got almost every song on this album right there. But in a Guided by Voices kind of way its enjoyable in its simplicity. It's got a hint of surf rock, but its more broadly beach music: hazy, sunny, lazy. It will either grow on me, or the simple structures will grate on me. I'm quite on the fence, but my gut is 3.5/5

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