Beans Release New Single 'Remember'
Geelong/Melbourne garage-psych band Beans (fronted by The Murlocs drummer Matt Blach) release 'Remember', the third and final single to be lifted from their long-awaited new album 'Less Louder' ahead of its release September 11th on Fuzz Club.
Drifting through psychedelic pop, surf and doo-wop influences, the incoming 'Less Louder' is all breezy, deeply-infectious melody and hazy jangle – foregrounding softer, more acoustic production, more piano and Rhodes, and dialling down the distortion and the wig-out lysergic grooves you might expect from a Beans record. Landing off the back of recent singles 'Resister' and 'My Room', new cut 'Remember' is another woozy, kaleidoscopic earworm out everywhere today.
Written and recorded around the time as its predecessor, 2024's 'Boots N Cats', 'Less Louder' is that album's more mellow and laid-back counterpart. Where the first of the two records that Blach set to work on in his DIY garage studio over the pandemic was a drum-driven set of rhythmic garage-psych grooves, 'Less Louder' is a blissed-out, harmony-driven record firmly in the "Sunday Afternoon" category, as Blach puts it. Left undisturbed for a few years, the second and final set of Beans recordings from that era is finally seeing the light of day now, landing mixed by Jesse Williams and mastered by John Lee.
"We went a lot more folky and chill on 'lockdown sessions 2'", Blach recalls: "Although Less Louder was recorded around the same time as Boots N Cats, as the title intentionally describes, it's a lot more laid-back in comparison. We're pleased to share some different paths and a new intimacy so to speak. There's a change in feel to these songs, with more mellow tones. Lyrically, the songs are based around the time they were written. Some about love, some about loneliness, some about memories, some about sleeping or hiding away." On the new single, Blach says that "Remember is a song that follows reminiscing, childhood memories and the change of age. Telling stories from the past and talking to and about elders past and present of their fondest times, I find it so wild how different a kid's life is to when I was one."
Like 'Boots N Cats', 'Less Louder' was written over that surreal extended limbo period and self-recorded at Blach's home in back in 2021: "It kept me sane and feeling productive to still be writing/recording and achieving something, having that opportunity and time and space really got my tires turning." However, where the first of the two found Blach playing all instruments himself, the full Beans line-up are back in tow here: Blach on songwriting and much of the vocals / guitar / drums duties, whilst backed up by bandmates Jack Kong on guitar, Mitch Rice on keys, Vincent Clementson on bass and Lachie McKiernan on drums.
'LESS LOUDER' OUT SEP 11 ON FUZZ CLUB
ALBUM PRE-ORDER HERE!
'REMEMBER', 'RESISTER' & 'MY ROOM' OUT NOW
Photo credit: Danysha Harriott
Drifting through psychedelic pop, surf and doo-wop influences, the incoming 'Less Louder' is all breezy, deeply-infectious melody and hazy jangle – foregrounding softer, more acoustic production, more piano and Rhodes, and dialling down the distortion and the wig-out lysergic grooves you might expect from a Beans record. Landing off the back of recent singles 'Resister' and 'My Room', new cut 'Remember' is another woozy, kaleidoscopic earworm out everywhere today.
Written and recorded around the time as its predecessor, 2024's 'Boots N Cats', 'Less Louder' is that album's more mellow and laid-back counterpart. Where the first of the two records that Blach set to work on in his DIY garage studio over the pandemic was a drum-driven set of rhythmic garage-psych grooves, 'Less Louder' is a blissed-out, harmony-driven record firmly in the "Sunday Afternoon" category, as Blach puts it. Left undisturbed for a few years, the second and final set of Beans recordings from that era is finally seeing the light of day now, landing mixed by Jesse Williams and mastered by John Lee.
"We went a lot more folky and chill on 'lockdown sessions 2'", Blach recalls: "Although Less Louder was recorded around the same time as Boots N Cats, as the title intentionally describes, it's a lot more laid-back in comparison. We're pleased to share some different paths and a new intimacy so to speak. There's a change in feel to these songs, with more mellow tones. Lyrically, the songs are based around the time they were written. Some about love, some about loneliness, some about memories, some about sleeping or hiding away." On the new single, Blach says that "Remember is a song that follows reminiscing, childhood memories and the change of age. Telling stories from the past and talking to and about elders past and present of their fondest times, I find it so wild how different a kid's life is to when I was one."
Like 'Boots N Cats', 'Less Louder' was written over that surreal extended limbo period and self-recorded at Blach's home in back in 2021: "It kept me sane and feeling productive to still be writing/recording and achieving something, having that opportunity and time and space really got my tires turning." However, where the first of the two found Blach playing all instruments himself, the full Beans line-up are back in tow here: Blach on songwriting and much of the vocals / guitar / drums duties, whilst backed up by bandmates Jack Kong on guitar, Mitch Rice on keys, Vincent Clementson on bass and Lachie McKiernan on drums.
'LESS LOUDER' OUT SEP 11 ON FUZZ CLUB
ALBUM PRE-ORDER HERE!
'REMEMBER', 'RESISTER' & 'MY ROOM' OUT NOW
Photo credit: Danysha Harriott
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