Album Review: Beaches Unleash A Second of Spring Upon Your Ears
Beaches want to release your inner bad-ass, at least, that seems to be the initiative through their newest record, Second of Spring. This is rock n’ roll at its best, and makes you want to be that “little rebel” that grabs a beer, jumps into an Impala, and takes her daddy’s bat to smash a few mail-boxes! Of course, I do not condone such bad behavior, but Beaches are not asking to be condoned or condemned. These ladies are looking to be their own judge and jury!
Second of Spring is a 17 track jolt. I cannot even pick a favored track because each roll outs like a scene from a Cameron Crowe film like Almost Famous. You feel taken by its humanity and its penchant for self-destruction. Tracks like “Void”, “Wine”,”Arrow” and “Mutual Delusion” combust in guitar melodies that could singe your hair and heart. You just feel as if Beaches created Second of Spring to light you inner fire while, ironically, singing to moments where they felt they lost theirs. At times, the reasons we rebel are because we feel so constrained. We break out in potential mischief and malice over the fact that we have been made nothing, and, lyrically, this album is dedicated to those who are re-enlivening from being made into “nothing”. With all the money and fame that seems to be churning for those that do not “deserve” it or causes that do not actually use it to help, Beaches’ verses stand as sung stats and testaments to how “Mother and Daughters”, “Bronze Age Babies”, and “Divers” are all feeling the pangs from a world that has so much to offer, but its wealth feels concentrated. These lyrical connections go from relationships to social relations, and are spiked with a psychedelic soundscape that can go from hypnotically rolling like, “September” or “Natural Tradition”, to those that feel like rock n’ roll orchestrations of every beaten path you have taken such as, “Turning” or “Calendar”. These ladies know how to draw in a crowd with their ability to contrast ethereal tapestried sonic, “Contact”, or gut-busting chords “Walk Around”.
In Second of Spring, it is as if Beaches went through every style of rock, from folk to punk, and said, “Hey come back to your psychedelic sister!”. With interchanging vocals from the ladies, harmonies swirl and sprawl like a Greek chorus has been unleashed. The result is a record you MUST play when you are in need of fierce “pick me up”. After all, who does not need their inner rebel to come out on occasion. For More Information on Beaches And To Buy Second of Spring on September 8 Click Here.
