BEACH SLANG’s second full-length is a crash-and-thunder collection of songs about what it takes to keep yourself going, to make it through the rest of the night—hell, through the rest of your youth—and beyond. Frontman James Alex wrote much of A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings on their first album’s support tour, during which he spent a lot of time with the kids who’d picked up the record.
“A lot of the songs [on Loud Bash] are the stories of the kids who got turned on to Beach Slang by the first album,” says Alex. “They’re autobiographical, too, but kind of at a remove—I’m not that young kid anymore, but I used to be. You know how it is; rock and roll is a new crop of 15-year-olds picking up guitars every year and having at it. There was something really cool about documenting someone elses life, but seeing myself in it. I suppose that’s why we connect. We’re all kind of one big gang.”
Going into the second record, Alex didn’t feel a sense of pressure to match the broad, unexpected success of the first.
“What I did feel was a sense of responsibility to the kids who told me they were finding something in our music that brought them back from a bad place, the ones who were getting Beach Slang tattoos and quoting lyrics to me after the shows. I don’t want to let those people down. As a 20-year-old, I thought, hey, let’s all have fun, we’re gonna live forever. You don’t really see the finish line. Now it’s more like, am I leaving behind work that’s going to matter? What’s this going to say about me when I run out of air, and my son is listening to these records and tapes that I left behind. Is he going to say, “Yeah, my dad was all right”? These days I feel like I’m responsible for things bigger than myself. And I want to do right by them.”
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TRACK LISTING
Future Mixtape For The Art Kids
Atom Bomb
Spin The Dial
Art Damage
Hot Tramps
Punks In A Disco Bar
Wasted Daze Of Youth
Young Hearts
The Perfect High
Warpaint
Beach Slang continue to dominate the road. See all dates below and keep an eye on http://beachslang.com/ for even more dates to be announced.
BEACH SLANG on tour:
7/20 — Sydney, Australia — Oxford Art Factory
7/23 — Byron Bay, Australia — Splendour in the Grass
7/24 — Melbourne, Australia — The Corner Hotel
7/28 — Asbury Park, NJ — Stone Pony^
8/07 — Katowice, Poland — OFF Festival
8/08 — Bremen, Germany — Tower Musikclub
8/10 — Oslo, Norway — Øya Festival
8/11 — Gothenburg, Sweden — Way Out West Festival
8/13 — Eschwege, Germany — Open Flair Festival
8/14 — Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany — Taubertal Festival
8/15 — Trier, Germany — Mergener Hof
8/16 — Dortmund, Germany — Freizeitzentrum West (FZW)
8/17 — Osnabrück, Germany — Kleine Freiheit
8/18 — Hasselt, Belgium — Pukkelpop
8/19 — Marinen, Trondheim, Norway — Pstereo Festival
8/20 — Bodø, Norway — Parken Festival
8/22 — Milton Keynes, UK — The Craufurd Arms
8/23 — Birmingham, UK — The Sunflower Lounge
8/24 — Hull, UK — Adelphi
8/25 — Huddersfield, UK — The Parish
8/26 — Bramham Park, Wetherby, UK — Leeds Festival
8/28 — Richfield Avenue, Reading, UK — Reading Festival
9/2 — Montauk, NY — The Surf Lodge’s Summer Music Series
9/8 — Baltimore, MD — The Ottobar
9/8-10 — Raleigh, NC — Hopscotch Music Festival @ The Lincoln Theater
9/10 — Raleigh, NC — The Camel
9/17 — Wilmington, DE — Dogfish Head Analog-a-GoGo @ Bellevue State Park
10/6 — Boston, MA — Royale%
11/4-6 — Austin, TX — Sounds on Sound Festival
^ w/ Bouncing Souls
% w/ Descendents
