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Beach Beach

Barcelona, Spain | Established. Jan 01, 2010 | INDIE

Barcelona, Spain | INDIE
Established on Jan, 2010
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""Tasteless Peace" LP Review"

Este grupo me conquistó en su día sin haberlos ni escuchado. ¿Por qué? Es fácil. Soy una maldita rata playera y todo lo relacionado con eso me fascina. Esto se podía haber quedado ahí. Me explico. Beach Beach podían haber sido un grupo de canciones tristes y que te transportasen a un domingo eterno de invierno. Pero no, ellos hacen honor a ese magnífico nombre para transportarnos directamente a una playa de arena blanca con chicas en bikini. Para mí esto es un disco de punk rock en toda regla, menos de treinta minutos y al grano. Pero todo adererezado con unas perfectas melodías pop que se te meterán en la cabeza y no se irán en días, qué digo, ¡en semanas! No busquéis a grupitos de tres al cuarto por ahí fuera cuando aquí tenemos a unos que van a ser grandes. Este disco debería estar entre lo mejor de este año. No sé vosotros, pero yo ya tengo banda sonora para este verano. Un consejo, no os los perdáis en el CanelaParty 2012. - Staf Magazine


""Tasteless Peace" LP Review"

Nueve canciones. Apenas veintitrés minutos. Siendo egoístas dan ganas de ponerse a reclamar, especialmente a aquellos de nosotros que llevamos tiempo esperando el debut de los mallorquines –aunque residentes en Barcelona- Beach Beach. Serán vagos, piensas de entrada. Pero “Tasteless Peace” compensa su brevedad con una intensidad increíble a todos los niveles. Entre líneas, hay una cantidad de referencias abrumadora: el homenaje a Maria del Mar Bonet de la portada, unas influencias que van de Any Trouble a Japandroids, de Sarah Records a Algernon Cadwallader. Y luego están las melodías y esa energía trepidante que transmiten canciones como “Plants”, “Cards” o “Worries”, que de tan breves casi te obligan tácitamente a darle al repeat una y otra vez, o la emocionante “Monster”. Pero el debut del grupo de Pau Riutort (también en Extraperlo y Capitán) y Tomeu Mulet (pluriempleado en Der Ventilator y Kana Kapila) es como el verano: nos pasamos los meses de frío deseando que llegue el sol y cuando se acaba, por muy bueno que haya sido, siempre nos sabrá a poco. De hecho, casi tan importante como su brillante debut, es la promesa que contienen estas canciones de cara al futuro. - Mondo Sonoro


"Bricolaje: Spain's Independent Rock"

You might not expect a band called Beach Beach, of La Castanya, to offer a mid-interview nod at McCarthy, the obscure Marxist indie pop group from 1980s Britain that would evolve into Stereolab. But it turns out that one of Beach Beach's more compelling qualities is their interest in mixing pop and politics to "protest in a beautiful way"-- as on "Easier", a cut from their recent debut album Tasteless Peace, about the political climate of their native Mallorca. The band's core songwriting duo is Pau Riutort, 25, and Tomeu Mulet, 22, who carries a Wavves tote.

Beach Beach aim for "a mix of New Wave from the 80s and indie rock from the early 90s," citing My Bloody Valentine's early albums and EPs as inspirations. They sing in English and say it's intuitive given that their influences are "99% English," but Riutort notes that there have been more bands singing in Spanish in recent years. "Right now, there's sometimes talk of a sense of belonging," he says, "that you have to sing in your language." - Pitchfork


Discography

• Beach Beach "Tasteless Peace" LP (La Castanya 2012)
• Beach Beach "Leeuwenhoek" 7" (Self Released 2010)

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Beach Beach have spent two years swimming, front crawl style. Fast and forceful,
these Majorcans fled the island they were born in and squeezed every song in their
debut album Tasteless Peace (La Castanya, 2012), a record that dares you to go
underwater and see how long you can go without breathing, to the last drop. Now
they are back with a brand new recipe in their hands and an expanded set of cooks.
In The Sea Pau Riutort and Tomeu Mulet have benefited from the participation of
Àngel Garau on drums and Lluís Cabot on guitar.
Is there anything shinier than a guitar through a chorus effect, a 12-string and
an acoustic guitar playing in unison? Probably, you would only be able to get the
same feeling by staring at the sun without your valued shades. Fast paced rhythms,
overdriven basses and beautiful background vocals. They have dared to do it all:
percussion arrangements, guitar solos, instrumental parts, harmony vocals… Maybe
the bands from the C-86 movement will come to mind, something that the wonderful
“Just Like Before” corroborates. Crystal-clear guitar lines may remind you of The
Smiths as well. But let’s not forget The Feelies, or New Zealand’s kiwi-pop, or
Postcard Records, or American power pop à la early The Last.
The Sea greets you and then says goodbye, leaving the gift of 12 cuts with a distinct
radio jingle feel, as fresh as taking a bath by the seashore rocks in the afternoon o
having a glass of lemonade with lots of ice. As it was the case with Tasteless Peace,
this is a feeling that contrasts with a set of lyrics that comes across as less summery,
more metaphorical, inspired by Blai Bonet and his novel El Mar (“The Sea”, hence the
album title) or Llorenç Villalonga. Lost opportunities and growing up in a world full of
cowards seem to leave no other option than running away towards some uncertain
location, but always forward.
Beach Beach will rather face anguish by lying in the sun, pouring water on their
wrists and the back of their necks, like moms do. They couldn’t do it any other way;
they’ve thrown the fishing line again and have taken enough fish out of the water to
make us all enjoy a delicious seafood paella. It might lack the shellfish, but The Sea
is a brilliant record.