If you're over the age of 40 or within spitting distance of it, you've probably heard that this record kinda sounds like the Replacements - LEFT OF THE DIAL. It does. I haven't gone out of my way to confirm if the band openly does this because they're an influence or perhaps this is a genuine College Rock album that sorta belongs in the growing spectrum of WALL OF SOUND artists like: Metz, White Lung, Pity Sex, Yuck and the Cloud Nothings. I'm somewhere in the middle I guess... I'm a die-hard Replacements fan and have been known to slink off into the dark and listen to Mats records while drinking alone.
Beach Slang's - THE THINGS WE DO TO FIND PEOPLE WHO FEEL LIKE US - is a record that sorta fell victim of coming out in late October. It likely would have placed higher on my best of 2015 list if it came out in the beginning of the Summer... It stirs up a a lot of feelings and memories, but its certainly a record I go out of my way to dig out when I have the appropriate company over. The friends who have kinda given up on exploring music because life gets freakishly crazy when you get on the wrong side of 35. These songs are bursting with youthful abandon and I can't wait to see where they go and grow from here.