catalogue

BEVIS FROND, THE

FOCUS ON NATURE (CLASSIC BACK VINYL) (FIRE RECORDS)

BEVIS FROND, THE - FOCUS ON NATURE (CLASSIC BACK VINYL) 164550
format:
2 LP
release:
26.07.2024
label:
FIRE RECORDS
item ID:
164550
barcode:
0809236001979
Repress on classic black vinyl! Focus On Nature is the new studio album from celebrated post-psyche singer songwriter Nick Saloman and his band The Bevis Frond.

Seventy-five minutes of glorious melodies that span 60s psych, English folk, Seattle art-punks The Wipers, the buzzsaw pop of Dinosaur Jr and Hendrix-esque explorations.

There's always an element of playful Englishness to their music. Heavily influencing the likes of The Lemonheads, Teenage Fanclub, Elliot Smith, Pavement and Dinosaur Jr, the cult icons have produced another off-kilter mix of melodic piano-led melancholy, acoustic ruminations, scratchy garage rock with a punky edge and full-on guitar histrionics.

Like its much-praised predecessor, 'Little Eden', the new record studies the world's weariness but fills out a bigger canvas; fast food and global warming, broken hearts and long gone nights out, everyday immortality and being God's gift all share space.

It's like Townshend at his most thematic; Big Star in all their acoustic glory, perfectly balancing the punky garage rock combo who end up running on 'Empty' with Gilmour breaks that elevate it all to grandeur.

"Still mixing pop, punk and psych to giddy effect." The Guardian "Self-reflection is twinned with a rueful survey of the current state of the nation." Uncut (for Little Eden) - Available on Ltd Double Classic Black Vinyl w/ DL card and/or as CD in Digisleeve -
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. HEAT
  • 1.2. FOCUS ON NATURE
  • 1.3. GOD'S GIFT
  • 1.4. VITRUVIAN MAN
  • 1.5. A MIRROR
  • 1.6. LEB OFF
  • 1.7. HERE FOR THE OTHER ONE
  • 1.8. HAPPY WINGS
  • 1.9. EMPTY
  • 1.10. WRONG WAY ROUND
  • 2.1. MR FREDS DISCO
  • 2.2. JACK IMMORTAL
  • 2.3. HAIRSTREAKS
  • 2.4. MAYBE WE GOT IT WRONG
  • 2.5. BROCADINE
  • 2.6. BIG BLACK SKY
  • 2.7. THE HUG
  • 2.8. I CAN'T BREATHE
  • 2.9. HUNG ON A WIRE