BEACH SLANG // Stream new album ‘The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us’

Hysteria Magazine in association with Cooking Vinyl Australia are proud to stream Beach Slang’s hot debut album The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us! Stream + review below:

The Philadelphia, PA quartet have exploded across the internet over their past two years, earning many “most anticipated releases of the year” monikers from a variety of publications. The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us is the start of their burgeoning full-length career and picks up where their two critically acclaimed 7″s, 2014’s Cheap Thrills On A Dead End Street and Who Would Ever Want Something So Broken? left off. Frontman James Alex first appeared in post-punk act Weston, while drummer JP Flexner, bassist Ed McNulty and guitarist Ruben Gallego also played in Ex-Friends, Nona and Glocca Morra respectively.

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REVIEW: The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us

Welcome to music in 2015, where bands don’t have money and audiences don’t have time. Beach Slang are a product of this, with a debut record of loud, poppy songs recorded essentially live, designed to hook you in as quickly and cheaply as possible. It works, with lead single Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas an early standout that wouldn’t sound out of place on either Triple J or on a Bruce Springsteen cover album. It’s hard to keep the pace up though, and the album’s quality dips a little around the three-quarter mark — a problem made worse by the decision to put a slower, quieter ballad in the middle of the tracklisting. Talk about a buzzkill. Still, it’s a solid debut, and you could do a lot worse for a soundtrack to sweaty and rowdy summer singalongs. – Sophie Benjamin

Standout tracks: Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas, Ride The Wild Haze
For fans of: The Gaslight Anthem, The Smith Street Band, Paper Arms

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The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us is out now on Cooking Vinyl Australia.