BEACH SKULLS - Beneath The Waves EP

It’s a commodity to music to find any band that are willing to take steps themselves to create their music, though it may be infinitely easier to do so in this day and age it’s a rarity to find a band that embraces a DIY element as apposed to using it as a stepping stone to something much bigger in production value.

This was my initial feeling after my first listen through of Beach Skulls debut into the big wide world of music. Its simplicity hits you the second the boys begin to play, and believe me in a time of modal complexities and high tech necessity this is very much a positive breath of fresh air.

The following is a genuinely moreish compound of northern English melancholy with through and through Nineteen fifties’ Americana, a mix that I can only imagine not to be common to anyone’s musical pallet.

If you listen to one track, make it ‘The Waves’ on the basis it’s to me the cleverest track maintaining the bands persona into a reasonably upbeat track, but realistically this is a highly intelligent and genuinely listenable EP

This and their second installment ‘The Brooklyn Jive’  (available 22/3/12) is available for download from their SoundCloud and their Tumblr

A review of ‘The Brooklyn Jive’ will follow shortly.