Beaches come from Melbourne, and if you’re looking for it, you can hear the sunny, wide-open sprawl of the band’s homeland in their layered and blissed-out studio rock. But for a couple of songs on their forthcoming sophomore album She Beats, the band linked up with Michael Rother, a walking symbol of a very different time and place. Rother is a former member of the legendary krautrock bands Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, and he adds mechanized staring-into-infinity guitar work to the gorgeous Beaches song “Distance,” which you can hear at Gorilla Vs. Bear.
She Beats is out 5/3 on Chapter Music.
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I hope there is a Beaches/Love of Diagrams tour of the US like there was a few years ago. Other than the mbv gig, those were probably the best shows I saw that year.
There is a band called beaches? Seriously?? I just commented on how teen and beach were indie terms that becoming cliche as names.
http://stereogum.com/1284201/teen-carolina-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/comment-page-1/#comment-8051291
I don;t doubt they are good or their musicianship but still, such a bad name.
Beaches is meant to sound like ‘Bitches’ … its from a joke our friend said when we first talked about starting the band. Also we’ve been together for over 5 years … before all this beach reference stuff took off .. too late to change our name now … lol
It’s been around for longer than that ex: beach house formed in 2004. I don’t doubt you have a fun back story to the name but these names are blowing up, its like Neon ____ . I don’t mean to rip on you guys I just think band names are becoming over used and it is bordering on self-parody within the “indie scene” or whatever. I’ve been in a nameless band for 4 years, I know how hard it is to come up with a good name.
TEEN got their name from their singer/songwriter, whose first name is Teeny.
It’s not about how, its the result we see, and the name results in a continuation in the indie teen trend.
Oh no, it is about “how.” That’s how good art works. You see, there is no sin in using those words or any words in your name as long as there is some meaning behind it. The problem (and the reason why there is a glut of bands with those words in their names) is rooted in bands lazily throwing words together and then following a trend. The bands who claim those words because they mean something to them have a right to use them, and those bands make up a very small percentage of the total. There would be no trend at all if only the bands who put some thought into naming themselves got to use those words, but alas, there is no law against bad art. As for Beaches, in addition to the backstory above, having seen them play, they have more of a right to use that word than anybody other than the Beach Boys. Not only did their first album evoke the full scope of that place; their sound is pretty close to being a force of nature.
I didn’t really address TEEN, but that one is kind of obvious. If the person who has gone through life with the name “Teeny” is not allowed to name her band TEEN, then no one can use that word, which would be stupid.