Beach Fossils | Clash The Truth

Captured Tracks (2013)
By LIZ PELLY  |  February 20, 2013
3.5 3.5 Stars

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Last year in an interview with the Phoenix, Dustin Payseur of Beach Fossils said his sophomore album would be inspired by "a lot of frustration from a lot of different sources." That sentiment surfaces in the first minutes of the opening title track: "Clash the Truth" is a fast two-minute song featuring much of the same jangly guitar work as their 2012 debut, but Payseur's vocals sound punchier and higher in the mix, a departure from their previous summery pace. Other immediately grabbing tracks here are "Generational Synthetic" — a song which Payseur told us is about the complications of artists making money from corporate sponsors — as well as "In Vertigo," a song with guest vocals by Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead. The beauty of Beach Fossils has always been in the tension between Payseur's disaffected deadpan and the band's super-visceral live shows (before Beach Fossils, he spent years playing in hardcore bands) and on Clash much of that post-punk energy translates seamlessly.

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