Nov 12 2006
Beeches
Beeches are a London four-piece who have gone through a number of changes to get where they are. The name of the band has changed, and members have come and gone, but that hasn’t stopped the band putting out some fantastic music in their current form. While it may be easy to dismiss them as ‘yet another London rock band’, it would be somewhat foolish to do so. While some of the obvious influences are here, there’s also a healthy dose of Americana thrown in.
The stories these songs tell sometimes border just the other side of surreal, the vocal delivery often has a laconic feel not heard since the heyday of Pavement and yet somehow the songs still manage to rock pretty hard. Particularly impressive is ‘Make Your Own Luck’ where the song regularly jumps between flat out rock and more gentle interludes without either side feeling out of place. Compare this to the lazy drawl, playing and lyrics (”So I thought, same old journey once again / I am arriving whenever I get there”) of ‘Arriving Whenever’, and you’ve got a band that can effortlessly drift between a number of different sounds.
MP3 Beeches - Arriving Whenever
MP3 Beeches - Boat 97
MP3 Beeches - Swift Goodbyes
MP3 Beeches - Make Your Own Luck
All songs taken from Beeches’ 2005 album ‘Then We’re Agreed’. You can download the entire album, as well as some more songs, from their website for free. Beeches will be playing at Another Form of Relief’s live music showcase on December 6 in Tunbridge Wells. Further details here.
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