WATCH: Beach Baby share ‘Hot Weather’ vid, debut album out now, Scala date + world tour (Island)
Beach Baby share live video for ‘Hot Weather’
Debut album, ‘No Mind No Money’, out now via Island Records
Extensive world tour also confirmed (including London’s Scala on September 9th)
Early praise for ‘No Mind No Money’
“Captures a sense of loneliness, dreaming and desperation…they’re unstoppable” Dork ****
“Spellbinding…a prosperous future ahead” DIY ****
“Lyrics about growing up and suburban escape…A fine line in pop grunge” Uncut
“A captivating warmth and comfort which will ultimately keep you coming back for more” Clash
Beach Baby have released a live video for new track ‘Hot Weather’, taken from their critically-acclaimed debut album ‘No Mind, No Money’ (out this week via Island Records). An extensive world tour begins this Friday with an album launch show at London’s Scala on September 9th).
Captured vividly across ‘No Mind No Money’, London four-piece Beach Baby have built up a tightly-sealed, vaguely surreal world of their own. Their initial spark proved equally unusual: co-vocalists and guitarists Ollie and Lawrence met outside a Halloween party at the student bar, where Lawrence was disconcertingly dressed like Malcolm McDowell in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Inhabiting a character’s headspace proved to be cathartic for the four-piece, and extended to the fantastical, John Hughes and Virgin-Suicides-inspired visuals which accompany Beach Baby’s music (and are exhibited in the ‘UR’ video).
Beach Baby’s touchstones have now evolved to include seminal acts on both sides of the Atlantic –from Parquet Courts and Mac DeMarco to Ariel Pink and cult lo-fi artist Cleaners From Venus. They each supported themselves throughout this creatively-intense period with make-ends-meet jobs, which included working in burger joints, ‘charity muggers’, and – in perhaps the oddest of odd jobs – working as a script reader for production companies like Icon. The aptly-titled ‘No Mind No Money’ touches frequently on those less-glamorous uncertainties of post-campus life: apathy, escapism, and the distance between your own future and the iconic bands or movies you grew up on.
Reflecting on completing their debut album, Beach Baby commented: “we hope that it manages to be both playful and sincere. Often the lightness of some of the melodies and harmonies belie some slightly murkier lyrical sketches. But to us, the record feels like a collection of narratives which explore common themes of loneliness and malaise, ecstasy and ego.” Ultimately tracing the sensation of becoming a grown up – and all the challenges that brings nowadays – ‘No Mind No Money’ is a colourful, summer-ready record in which darker, colder times linger only slightly out of shot.
9/9/2016 London Scala (Album Launch Show)
10/9/201 Paris Badaboum (supporting Genghar)
* w/ Beaty Heart
9/14/2016 Allston, MA Great Scott
9/15/2016 Toronto, ON The Garrison
9/16/2016 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen
9/17/2016 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
9/20/2016 Vancouver, BC Cobalt
9/21/2016 Seattle, WA Sunset
9/22/2016 Portland, OR Holocene
9/23/2016 San Francisco, CA Popscene @ Rickshaw Stop
9/24/2016 Los Angeles, CA Resident
9/26/2016 Washington, DC DC9
9/27/2016 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s
9/29/2016 Brooklyn, NY Baby’s All Right
9/30/2016 New York, NY Berlin
European headline tour
10/7/2016 Southampton Joiners
10 /8/206 Brighton Patterns
10/9/206 Norwich Waterfront (Studio)
10/11/2016 Birmingham Hare & Hounds
10/12/2016 York The Crescent
10/13/2016 Newcastle Think Tank
10/15/2016 Glasgow Stereo
10/17/2016 Leeds Wardrobe
10/18/2016 Liverpool Studio 2
10/19/2016 Manchester Deaf Institute
10/21/2016 Sheffield Leadmill
10/25/2016 Amsterdam Sugar Factory
10/26/2016 Rotterdam V11
10/27/2016 Eindhoven Stroomhuis
10/29/2016 Brussels Witloof Bar
10/30/2016 Cologne MTC
10/31/2016 Berlin Szimpla
11/03/2016 Munich Unter Deck
11/04/2016 Vienna Chelsea
Purchase ‘No Mind No Money’ on iTunes: http://po.st/NoMindIT5