A pick’n’mix of classic indie guitar sounds, two flavours of female-fronted electronica and life-affirming, wide-eyed psych pop
Beach Baby, a four-piece from Dorset and Athens who met at Goldsmiths College in London, are managed by the team behind Jungle, but their debut single, Ladybird, out on 30 March on Chess Club, sounds totally different. It’s indie guitar pop, without wishing to damn it with faint praise. Somehow it manages to capture elements of the best of several genres/eras – post-punk, baggy, shoegaze and grunge – without sounding like a mess. They cite as influences the Cure, Joy Division, the Smiths, Pavement and Nirvana. Indeed, Ladybird – conceived as “an alternative love song tracing the subconscious workings of a relationship” – has some of the Cure’s early moody majesty, only combined with the dynamics of Nirvana and the stoned triumphalism of The Stone Roses. Could be big.
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by Paul Lester via Electronic music | The Guardian
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