3 September 2025
Album artwork
Band: THE BEACHES
Who: Zappy Canadian indie
guitar pop combo.
Album: NO HARD FEELINGS.
Their 3rd one.
Press info: “The Beaches have spent the past decade building something unstoppable. Their third album No Hard Feelings finds the band blaming themselves (rather than their exes), embracing their partying ways and accepting the occasional semi-self destructive thoughts and actions.”
Clash Magazine says: “Thanks to the quartet’s desire to intertwine their stories into one solid narrative, we now have to deal with even more exes… Along with personal transformations, the girls have undergone very noticeable sonic metamorphoses, giving up the mid-to-late 2000s raw indie sound.
They have taken a hard left from garage-indebted indie rock into a more poppy and
danceable surf-pop version of Haim, with euphoric choruses and a pinch of post-punk.”
Photo Credit: Meg Moon
TUTV: The album’s closer Last Girls At The Party is their best tune. A bright-eyed and
bushy-tailed guitar pop earworm that sticks on the spot. Effervescent, hepped up and hung go. The band liked it so much they tried to copy it 9 times, but never matched it
fully.
It causes an ongoing déja entendu experience, which reduces the record to an average level. But let’s end with good news. Lesbian Of The Year is one of the best ballads I heard all year long. Its 60s romantic resonance and its emotive, vocal thrill makes it the best track of the album.
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