The Beta Band - The Three EPsExclusive 2025 repress Double Heavyweight black LP , printed inners'I discovered the Beta Band, like I discovered a lot of great music, basically through eventually surrendering to the enthused urgings of a mate who was cooler than me. He continually evangelized about the EPs. I was lost to the concert hall and firmly ensconced on the dancefloor by then and highly resistant, but quite taken by the idea that a band would bring out extended plays rather

An extremely rare oddity

This is a photograph of that sense of yearning

The legendary Captain Foam kicks off this trip like an anvil to your skull with a rollicking stomper sounding like The Who with Matt Pike‰۪s thunderous guitar tone

The album's numerous lyrics serve as symbolist vehicles to a state outside the field of time and space

Enrolling Sonic Boom (Pete Kember of Spacemen 3) to produce the record and an additional guitarist in the form of Casper Morilla Fernandez

When doing so it becomes obvious that

"Blue Monday"

Carman and Cole had started work a day early to dial in the drum sound

flourishing on its beach life and doing their bit to secure its reputation as the ‰Û÷cultural capital‰۪ of Essex

they’ve gotten together a few times

at once isolated from home and then any established emotional anchor

and releases on renegade labels like Wurlitzer Jukebox and Enraptured