To say Philadelphia’s Beach Slang have been blowing up the US punk scene is quite the understatement. After two years of successful touring and with a couple of EPs to their name, Beach Slang have knuckled down and released the debut long player, The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us.
From the get-go, Beach Slang let you know that this is going to be a noisy record. With distorted vocals and energetic instrumental arrangements, the record gets off to a high octane start and barely stops for breath from there. The sound often breaks into the realm of 2000s pop punk (without the requisite woahs). You could even describe The Things We Do as the pinnacle of catchy-as-hell pop punk. Driven by heavy riffs and guitar hooks, you can imagine it blasting at a skate park or soundtracking a party full of teenagers drunk on stolen booze.
The album invokes the classic pop punk sentiment of downtrodden youth uniting together under a sound. It also brings to light the love and adoration that Beach Slang have for their community. Noisy Heaven encapsulates this perfectly, especially within the lyric, “The songs that I make, I barely rehearse them / They’re hardly mistakes, they’re meant to be honest”. Beach Slang perform for the love of music and the people who come out to their shows. They’re not bringing technically refined, overly polished songs; they’re embracing the raw and untamed energy present within the punk scene.
The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us effortlessly demands its place in any respectable contemporary punk rock collection. An obvious amount of love and care has been put into each and every track, and it truly deserves your attention.
BY HOWL GRIFFITHS
