Beige Banquet
Acid Bathtub
Simply Step Sideways
Beige Banquet are your new favorite band. Having lately accomplished a sequence of in depth excursions throughout The UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and The Netherlands, these London punks share their first full-band studio recording, Acid Bathtub by way of Simply Step Sideways.
Placing apart that I believe their band title is up there with one among my favorite band names of all time, Beige Banquet mix the sounds of Gang of 4, Pleasure Division, and Uranium Membership by way of their strategy to technicality and the tastefulness of their preparations. Including a contemporary twist, you might examine them to the likes of Snapped Ankles and Iguana Dying Cult as their sound (regardless of having basic heritage) feels extremely contemporary.
Acid Bathtub’s chaotic manner additionally matches that of the one discovered at their dwell reveals. Full with topless dudes, sweaty moshing and completely no compromise on expertise, the slashing vitality from this five-piece additionally manages to be dance-floor pleasant. Taken from a forthcoming EP and recorded in vocalist and guitarist Tom Brierley’s bed room studio, the monitor expands upon the sounds featured on earlier albums and EPs. Buying and selling in unquestioning drum machines for propellant dwell drums, and including agile layers of guitars and percussion over a saturated bassline, Beige Banquet show a tense and decided edge.
The monitor, fittingly, additionally sees a extra frenzied vocal strategy than earlier than as Brierley matches the messaging with a frantic efficiency that hurtles out lyrics in an more and more distressed method over the course of the tune. In each approach, Beige Banquet are actually bigger, louder, and extra intense. Talking on the monitor’s themes, Brierley explains “Lyrically it’s an ode to an undefined momentary answer for bitter desperation, virtually to the purpose of nihilism”.
So, run your self an Acid Bathtub- sit again and marinade within the post-punk bubbles while Beige Banquet pull the plug simply earlier than you get comfy.
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And for the love of Christ, purchase a ticket to their headline present at Moth Membership as a result of it actually goes to be spectacular.
All phrases by Jazz Hodge. Extra writing by Jazz might be present in her creator’s archive.
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