Beach Baby announce second album ‘Songs From The Limbo Lounge’
Beach Baby announce second album ‘Songs From The Limbo Lounge’, share new single, ‘Human Remains’ + Moth Club date
Beach Baby announce second album, ‘Songs From The Limbo Lounge’ (August 30th)New single, ‘Human Remains’, available nowMoth Club date also confirmedPraise for Beach Baby’s debut album, ‘No Mind No Money’
“Captures a sense of loneliness, dreaming and desperation…they’re unstoppable” Dork ****“Spellbinding…a prosperous future ahead” DIY ****“A captivating warmth and comfort which will ultimately keep you coming back for more” Clash“One of the best new bands in Britain” Sunday Times “Their songs slouch like teenagers, but listen closely and you’ll hear this London band have an ear for melody and lyrical turn of phrase” GQ
Beach Baby have today confirmed details of second album ‘Songs From The Limbo Lounge’, which will see a release on August 30th. The record is further introduced today by new single ‘Human Remains‘, whilst the band have announced details of a Moth Club show on September 10th. Like a shot straight in the arm, or just one pull of a two stroke engine, ‘Human Remains’ doesn’t let up. From the opening acapella vocal to the song’s strangled dying whelp, the song finds Ollie lyrically questioning heaven, earth and everything in between (with tongue firmly in cheek). Mixed by Nathan Boddy (Shame, Georgia) and arriving alongside a 70s gore-inspired music video shot entirely on Super 8, ‘Human Remains’ is without doubt one of Beach Baby’s most playful and immediate works to date. Along with returning tracks ‘Lovin’ Feeling’ and ‘Big School’, ‘Human Remains’ provides an intriguing window into the diverse world of Beach Baby’s forthcoming second album, ‘Songs From The Limbo Lounge’.
If it’s been a little while coming, that’s because after touring acclaimed debut ‘No Mind, No Money’ extensively, Beach Baby found themselves – well, with no money. So in the dark months at the start of 2017, the band repaired to the ‘summerhouse’ (read shed) at the bottom of drummer Shep’s garden, and set about converting it into a makeshift studio, with co-vocalist Ollie Pash at the helm as engineer and producer. It was a place where the band could lick their wounds and reconnect, over the shared warmth of a portable heater. Shep Hodgson was working as a Teacher’s assistant, Ollie had a million different shit jobs, bassist Kit Jennings was commuting from his parents’ house in Tunbridge, and co-vocalist Lawrence Pumfrey had shaved his head in a moment of existential crisis.
If ‘Lovin’ Feeling’ gave an initial idea of the new music’s style, it was the as yet unreleased eponymous track, ‘Limbo Lounge’, that set the scene. Inspired by the sordid world building of Tom Waits and Lou Reed, here Beach Baby began to explore a place. A purgatorial netherworld inhabited by down-on-their-luck weirdos, where ‘down is up, and up is down’; where ‘no-one cares where you’ve come from, and no-one cares where you’re going to’. And whilst the band never set out to make a ‘concept’ album (the word can inspire dread in even the most adventurous music listeners), it suddenly became clear that all the songs they were writing existed within this place. Certain common themes abounded; existential confusion and spiritual dereliction; romantic burnout and sexual dysfunction; quasi-religious encounters; characters riddled with loneliness and comic delusions of grandeur.
The new songs weren’t just Beach Baby’s second album, they were Songs From The Limbo Lounge. And Beach Baby? They were the Limbo Lounge house band. Indeed, if you listen closely to the album, you might hear elements of 70s power pop, Laurel Canyon singer-songwriters, Phil Spector-era George Harrison, every-era The Beatles, Bowie at some point or another, Glam Rock, un-Glam Rock, Piano Balladry, Country Blues…the list goes on. All that mattered was that what had begun as a DIY project in a shed had suddenly become something much more expansive, much more colourful, and much more ambitious. The trio of songs released thus far – completed by the humorous, high-octane ‘Human Remains’ – pay winning testament to that ambition, and offer a tantalising preview of the weird, off-kilter world of ‘Songs From The Limbo Lounge’. It’s a world built from a mad, eclectic jumble of audio-visual influences – but it also feels strangely coherent, consistent and fun to listen to. And why? Because the songs all come from that same place of Limbo. September 10th || London || Moth Club
WATCH the video to Human Remains
https://youtu.be/fhZ4aL2zh9I
WATCH the video to ‘Lovin’ Feeling’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maa2qmNWLY8