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Flyer by Stanley Martinez
Following the highly acclaimed album ‘Dream Violence’ (2021) and the recent LP re-issue of his modern underground classic ‘Gravity/ Repulsion’, Michael Beach has announced a new self-titled 12”/ EP, to be released Sep 22 via Goner & Poison City Records.
Known for his work touring with the Australian guitar pop band Thigh Master and the late, brilliantly eccentric Israeli guitarist Charlie Megira, Michael Beach is the architect of a sound that is both well-built and ramshackle, straightforward and indeterminably complex, out of the norm yet familiar in all the best ways.
Across his growing catalog, Beach’s music unfolds like a revelation, filled with sonic tumbleweeds that reference Neil Young’s On the Beach, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, the Velvet Underground’s Loaded, and the Go Betweens’ Before Hollywood. Influences ranging from the enigmatic outlier Megira to Glenn Branca to the Oblivians are combined to create a new, exhilarating sound, part of the path that Beach has been on since 2008.
‘Out in a Burning Alley’, the EP’s lead single, combines Beach’s soulful abstracted lyrics over two minutes and fifty eight seconds of blazing garage-rock, where the sounds of the Melbourne and Oakland/Bay Area underground collide.
Famous Mammals
DIY art punk from Stanley, Andy, Amber, and Matt of b(r)and names you can trust including Rays, The World, Naked Roommate, Violent Change and more.
"Three-fifths of the WORLD (to say nothing of the dozens of other projects they’ve had a hand in, but let’s start there) regrouped last year as FAMOUS MAMMALS, shifting their post-punk allegiance from rhythmic, sax’d-out ESSENTIAL LOGIC stylings to something closer to the shambolic UK DIY aesthetic trafficked by the HOMOSEXUALS-aligned It’s War Boys label. A clattering Rhythm Master provides that patently early ’80s chintzy analog drone, the murky psychedelia of “The Plum Overcoat” suggests that the TELEVISION PERSONALITIES really did know where SYD BARRETT lived and paid him a house call, there’s a dryly faux-Brit accented “Ode to Nikki” (I’m assuming Mr. SUDDEN; I’ve never been so sure of something being a SWELL MAPS homage in all my life).” - MRR
Flamingos are unabashedly a rock 'n roll band with a soft spot for strange. While their songs have a playful pop sensibility, they bring a heavy dose of noise and experimental process to their sound which features frenetic melodic interplay between frontman Tyler Bell (Dick Stusso, ex-Golden Drugs) and guitar player Nic Russo (Dick Stusso), held together by tightly-wound percussive tension from Al Miner (Credit Electric, ex-The Classical) and slithering, gruff basslines from Ida B. (ex-Body Double.)