{"id":12384,"date":"2015-10-29T11:44:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=12384"},"modified":"2018-08-09T17:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T21:11:51","slug":"album-review-beach-slang-the-things-we-do-to-find-people-who-feel-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/album-review-beach-slang-the-things-we-do-to-find-people-who-feel-like-us\/","title":{"rendered":"ALBUM REVIEW: Beach Slang “The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A genre can sometimes be a useless, misleading way of explaining what an artist sounds like and allowing listeners to decide ahead of time whether they like them. It\u2019s definitely not the best description to call Beach Slang<\/a>\u2019s The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us,\u00a0<\/i>a straight ahead punk album, though it could be placed under the broad umbrella of the genre. It\u2019s got the energy and general vibe; singer James Alex has a sandpaper-rough voice and a way of singing that makes you think he\u2019s straining as hard as he can against his vocal cords. Though he hardly even gets to the level of a shout, his lyrics\u00a0convey a generous amount of sincerity. It\u2019s punk rock that never rocks too hard, pop-punk that\u2019s comfortable and familiar without drowning you in nostalgia. It\u2019s dreamy punk, just as good of a soundtrack for contemplating and cloud watching as it is for thrashing around your living room. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s also meta-punk, as Alex focuses his the songs he writes and music he plays on the process itself. On \u201cNoisy Heaven,\u201d he finds salvation in being \u201cWay out of tune, turned up to 11\u201d as he admits \u201c The songs that I make, I barely rehearse them\/ They\u2019re hardly mistakes, they\u2019re meant to be honest.\u201d On “Ride The Wild Haze,\u201d he wants to \u201cMake the loudest sounds until we feel something.\u201d \u201cI break guitars and waste my voice,\u201d he emotes on \u201cI Break Guitars,\u201d but he still finds safety and comfort in rock & roll, blurring his pain into sounds on \u201cDirty Lights.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

And although Alex states an obvious fact by including the track \u201cToo Late To Die Young,\u201d there\u2019s a youthfulness to the album, hammered in by the fact that he also refers to himself as a kid,\u00a0or sings about being young just as often as he shares his adoration of music. Being a punk implies its own youthfulness – teenage and twenty-something angst, being misunderstood, being an outsider. Did Beach Slang grow up? Yeah. But fortunately, they never grew away from those feelings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us <\/i><\/a>will be available via Polyvinyl on October 30. In the meantime, you can stream it here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/beachslang\/bad-art-weirdo-ideas-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A genre can sometimes be a useless, misleading way of explaining what an artist sounds like and allowing listeners to decide ahead of time whether they like them. It\u2019s definitely not the best description to call Beach Slang\u2019s The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us,\u00a0a straight ahead punk album, though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":12385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638,202],"tags":[42,284,3613,2667,909,973,1523,552,3811],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BeachSlang.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12390,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12384\/revisions\/12390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}