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Beach Slang
- Record Label: Polyvinyl
- Release Date: Oct 30, 2015
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Oct 29, 2015It's a near-constant barrage of fist-pumpers built to fight back the sunrise, from the opening pummel of Throwaways to the Replacements-indebted pop power of closer Dirty Lights.
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Oct 30, 2015It’s across 10 immaculately tidy tracks, and if Snyder’s goal is to get the band’s points across and accomplish that feeling of catharsis all the same, then this record sure feels like a success.
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Alternative PressOct 26, 2015The hope was that Beach Slang would be the next great melodic punk band; with this album, that's no longer in question. [Nov 2015, p.96]
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Oct 27, 2015The Things We Do is a record for anyone who’s ever felt, even for a moment, that music is what matters the most. For any hard-luck kid or nowhere bum who needs it, that escape is heaven.
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Nov 5, 2015It is an album with a vibrant, thumping heart that, while bruised and battered, keeps beating through it all. This is music made for people who have needed music to keep going.
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Nov 3, 2015For all its flaws, Beach Slang’s debut is a fun and absolutely engaging listen.
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Dec 17, 2015It’s an indie record, yet it sounds huge--and not in an overbearing way.
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Nov 5, 2015The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us proves that Beach Slang are not a flash in the pan. They’re a genuine part of the heart of punk rock, pumping blood and keeping its spirit alive.
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Nov 5, 2015It’s the most passionate batch of love songs you’re liable to hear in 2015, and they’re all about a specifically anthemic form of punk rock.
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Oct 30, 2015The Philadelphia quartet’s appeal is built on an earnestness and an honesty that leaks from every sweat-channelling pore of The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us.
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Kerrang!Oct 29, 2015Too late to be the sound of the summer, Beach Slang will instead warm your hearts all winter--and far beyond. [31 Oct 2015, p.54]
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Oct 26, 2015Beach Slang play with the kind of heartfelt abandon that you could imagine translating to wider audiences in a similar vein to The Gaslight Anthem or, going back even further, The Goo Goo Dolls. For now, the no-hopers have a voice, but you get the feeling that it won't be theirs alone for much longer.
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Oct 26, 2015At some point or another, we all feel as though the electricity of our existence is being trapped in a confined space, waiting to break loose. The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us pops the lid, vigorously releasing that energy into the atmosphere. It’s liberating.
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Nov 9, 2015The Things We Do sounds like the product of an alternate reality in which Bruce Springsteen was a teenager in the 2000’s who spent all his time crafting the perfect instant messenger away notifications instead of ruminating on small town America. But Alex and his bandmates pull it off with sheer conviction and force of will.
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Jan 8, 2016Some of the songs do blend together a bit, but repeated listens, preferably loud and accompanied by one’s preferred adult beverage, should remedy that situation.
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Nov 2, 2015There's something refreshing about a bastard of old who doesn't try to slow down his band's headlong thwack with stubble-stroking musing on midlife malaise or clunky lit-seminar over-trying. For these guys, noise will always be enough.
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Oct 30, 2015Beach Slang are well-aware that there are people out there who feel just as they do, and they reveal their allegiance through the power of a good ol’ rock song.
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Oct 30, 2015A few of the songs sound a lot like one another, and, like any rock & roll, The Things We Do can come off as risible to the rational heart and sensible head, but for the uncertain and, to refer to the Replacements, unsatisfied, the album is potentially relatable and potently cathartic.
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Oct 28, 2015Teeming with hooks and lyrical calls to arms, The Things We Do is a unique record, one that rages with youthful vigour, but which couldn't have been made by anyone under the age of 35.
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Oct 26, 2015The album’s escapism is alarmingly potent, to the point where it verges into the downright delusional, but its lack of self-consciousness is--somewhat ironically--the thing that keeps it in check.
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Oct 29, 2015Music saves the misfit kids, but not every pain can be walloped into submission. Beach Slang sound less interested in ripping that pain open and exposing its insides than they are in shouting over it, and The Things We Do can start to sound like an exercise in emotional extremes.
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Nov 17, 2015This is Beach Slang’s core problem: they are constantly telling, never showing.
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MagnetNov 17, 2015His [James Alex's] lyrics aren't particularly strong. [No. 126, p.53]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 21
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Mixed: 2 out of 21
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Negative: 1 out of 21
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