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| Beat Mark - Move On |
Beat Mark – Move On (Soft Power
Records)
Anyone up for a bit of Parisian
shoe-gazey indie-pop on limited edition cassette? Oh go on, you know you want
to. Good. Right then, wrap your ears round a bit of Beat Mark, the latest
additions to the increasingly impressive Soft Power Records release catalogue. This
French quartet are carving a niche in the fuzzpop, boy-girl vocals, super-cool
genre and lead track ‘Move On’ is the perfect example of this. Lackadaisical
drumming, disinterested singing and strained guitar notes give way chunky riffs
and wrought guitar screeching as the chorus explodes. The swirling riffs of ‘Between
My Teeth’ bring back memories of My Vitriol and Cable mixed with the more
obscure of the Scando Indie imports such as Fungus or Grass Show. ‘Boxes’ is a
more bouncy, summery number with jangly guitars and a wistful air that stops
you dead in your tracks. Beat Mark have the ability to switch between sweet and
sour at the flick of a switch and on ‘Declorize’ they take on the mantle from
Dinosaur Jr. Or the Pixies in terms of pure fuzz and attitude. These five
tracks close with a tense ditty by the name of ‘The Way’. This is real serial
killer music and should definitely be soundtracking some lo-fi teen-slasher
movie by the time the year is out. This is good stuff and I would thoroughly
recommend that you head out and get a copy of this but.....well....you can’t.
It’s sold out. It was simply that good. You can track it down on Soundcloud
though and I think you should.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/beat.mark.1 // http://finaltaxirecords-beatmark.com/