Beach Slang - A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings album flac

In just 3 years, Beach Slang’s career trajectory has sky-rocketed, with countless devotees falling for the Philly troubadours’ heart-on-sleeve punk rock poetry soundtracked to buzz-saw guitars. We stream their second album, A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings, whilst frontman James Alex recounts the highs and lows of getting to this point. Remfry Dedman rydedman. Thursday 15 September 2016 11:57.

A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings. A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings is the second studio album by the American punk rock band Beach Slang, released on September 23, 2016 on Polyvinyl and Big Scary Monsters. Recorded and released in less than a year following the band's debut album, A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings is the last studio album to feature both drummer JP Flexner, who left Beach Slang following its recording, and guitarist Ruben Gallego who departed shortly after its release.

Moving on: A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings (the title is derived from bandleader James Alex’s description of someone’s heart in Hot Tramps ) has a distinctly rougher edge to it than The Things We Do. If that album constitutes responding to the emotional conflicts of one’s early adulthood by saying Fuck it, cracking another beer, turning the music up louder and trying to stay positive, Teenage Feelings shows significant signs of the impending hangover despite still being packed with gripping melodies and shout-along choruses. Not all of these differences will be immediately apparent, and fans of The Things We Do need not worry-Teenage Feelings is very much a Beach Slang album. Moments like the sharp three- and four-note guitar hooks on Perfect High and Hot Tramps still ring out with as much essential joie de vivre as anything in the band’s catalog.

If you're familiar with any Beach Slang song, you've pretty much already heard A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings. That's kind of the point of Beach Slang. James Alex speaks almost exclusively of being young, loud, and wild to reacquaint listeners with the dormant emotions they once felt were inextricable from formative moments: discovering the Replacements, playing in a high school band, making out on the filthy couch at your first punk rock show. He yells lyrics like, "The radio is loud and wild, but I'm too drunk to spin the dial, one of the more subtle nods to the. Is that lifestyle really sustainable or really any way to truly live? Here’s the first chorus on the album: I hope I never die. Simply believe that James Alex believes it and you might, too.

Coming off a string of acclaimed EPs, Beach Slang’s first album, 2015’s The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us, won remarkably effusive acclaim from a number of critics, and wound up on several best-of-the-year lists. James wrote much of A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings on that album’s support tour, during which he spent a lot of time with the kids who’d picked up the record. A lot of the songs are the stories of the kids who got turned on to Beach Slang by the first album, says Alex

Beach Slang's sophomore album opens with the words "Play it loud, play it fast," followed later in the verse by "Play me something that might save my life. That encapsulates the spirit of A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings, an aptly titled 30-minute blast of discontent and consolation. The record follows the band's similarly angst-ridden debut by less than year, and is likely to sweep up fans of that album with a consistent sound and intensity

Beach Slang are doing this as much for us as for themselves, and if you're down with them, it's hard not to feel awesome listening to this album. 80. Self-aware but undaunted, every moment sees the band pushing at the walls, daring to take it bigger, promising to make it more open. Beach Slang's over-the-top, music-as-cure-all formula is delivered with such heartfelt sincerity that even the most stubborn folks must feel the need to jump around. 67. If BS's LP titles sound so corny they're painful, Alex's POV remains imminently relatable.

Album: A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings, 2016.