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The Beta Band were a Scottish musical group formed in 1996. Their style was described as being a blend of folk , psychedelia , electronica , post-rock and trip hop , often involving stylistic experimentation and occasional humour.
Jul 4, 2007 · From the compilation The Three E.P's. Why wasn't it uploaded yet?! The best song of The Beta Band in all the ways.
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- Antonio Rodríguez
- “Eclipse”
- “Pure For”
- “Dogs Got A Bone”
- “Round The Bend”
- “Squares”
- “Dance O’Er The Border”
- “Al Sharp”
- “Dry The Rain”
- “Needles in My Eyes”
- “She’s The One”
Hot Shots IIwas a collection of the band’s tautest and iciest music, but “Eclipse” closes the record like a big warm hug. It’s the opposite of almost everything else on the album — long, silly, and supremely chilled out. On an album that focused on electronic beats and anxious, death-obsessed lyrics, there couldn’t be a better way to bring things t...
While Heroes To Zeroeshas some good songs, it often feels somewhat transitional. “Pure For,” the last song on the Beta Band’s final release, is a beautiful idea of where they might have gone. It’s sparser than most of the other tracks, mostly just a drumbeat, synth chirps, and backward guitar riffs. But with less, they do more than any other track ...
For all the talk about how progressive and ahead of their time the Beta Band were, this song is a good reminder that they also just made sweet jams. “Dogs Got A Bone” might be the most charismatic track they ever made. It’s like a big plate of musical comfort food — acoustic guitar, warm harmonium sounds, hand percussion, and a little beat boxing f...
Arguably the most focused moment on a very unfocused album, “Round The Bend” find the Beta Band at their funniest and saddest. It’s also a moment where Mason’s lyrics out-dazzle the music. Mason is fiercely specific in his internal monologue on his bummer of a night, and the lyric sheet is like a layered pastry of the depressing and the hilarious. ...
After the wackiness of the first album, people might have been expecting another step in that direction with Hot Shots II. After all, the name is goofyand the album cover was a pretty clear approximation of Pen & Pixel’s legendary ridiculous art design. Yet what you first hear is some of the starkest music the Beta Band ever made. While “Dry The Ra...
This might be the perfect song to illustrate why some people were pissed when The Beta Bandcame out. Everyone knew that the record was rushed, and that maybe the band didn’t have enough time to fully develop the songs or lyrics as much. That’s understood. And many people first listening to “Dance O’er The Border” just heard a fucking mess. Rather t...
The best song off Hot Shots II is one of the finest examples of the Beta Band throwing disparate sounds together into something that gels completely. The whole thing plays as a perfect counterpoint to the lovestruck “She’s The One” from The Three EPs. While that song opened with loose, woozy acoustic guitar strums, “Al Sharp” takes a similar sound ...
For most people, “Dry The Rain” is thesong by the Beta Band. The first track off their first release, it’s one hell of an impressive introduction. Break it apart and you’ll find that each element is extremely simple: the drumbeat, the horn sample, the chanted lyrics — it was actually the first song I learned how to play on bass, and believe me, I w...
Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos, the third of The Three EPs, takes the band in a darker, slower direction with the trio of “It’s Over,” “Push It Out,” and “Dr. Baker” — all songs preoccupied with death, heartbreak, and an anxiety that Mason sums up well with “Over”‘s plea: “Please reassure me I’m doing all right.” Then comes “Needles In My Eyes,” a tr...
My second most important CD purchase in high school was The Three EPs, an album I got (like everyone) because it opened with “Dry The Rain,” but that’s not the height of its charms. Think back: You just made it through the 15-minute sound collage insanity of “Monolith,” and whether you loved or hated it (there’s really no in-between), you were comp...
- Miles Bowe
Oct 21, 2013 · 20th Anniversary Repress - All Albums back on Vinyl & CD - http://bit.ly/BetaBandPledge.
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The Beta Band were a Scottish musical group formed in 1996. Over the course of their career they released four albums and one Best of collection, which included a music video DVD.
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