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When Beach Skulls named their first record <a href="spotify:album:4ELjrCQr60L0A6h5JqeTYd" data-name="Slow Grind">Slow Grind</a>, they meant it. It took them the best part of five years to find the right lineup and the right label, with singer-guitarist Ry Vieira and drummer Jordan Finney only signing to PNKSLM after a trip to Berlin united them with a long-sought bassist in Dan West. Vieira and Finney formed the band in their native Widnes over a shared love of Dick Dale and, eventually, the surf-rock stylings of early Beach Skulls gave way to the chiming guitars and sunny melodies that defined their debut LP.
If Slow Grind marked the end of a long road for Beach Skulls, then sophomore album Las Dunas feels like a celebration of the start of a new one. They swapped the sterile surrounds of Liverpool’s Parr Street Studios for an old unit on an industrial estate in nearby Birkenhead, giving them more time to experiment after Slow Grind was completed in just four days. “There’s supposed to be more pressure than ever on your second record,” says Vieira, “but that wasn’t how it felt to us. We were more comfortable than last time; we had time to sit around drinking a few beers and trying different things. We didn’t think we had to rush.”
The result is a glorious exercise in blissed-out garage-pop that leans towards some of the trio’s more psychedelic influences more than ever before; they namecheck The Golden Dawn and Allah-Las in particular, as well as the Texas psych scene more generally. Las Dunas is due on June 1 via PNKSLM Recordings.
If Slow Grind marked the end of a long road for Beach Skulls, then sophomore album Las Dunas feels like a celebration of the start of a new one. They swapped the sterile surrounds of Liverpool’s Parr Street Studios for an old unit on an industrial estate in nearby Birkenhead, giving them more time to experiment after Slow Grind was completed in just four days. “There’s supposed to be more pressure than ever on your second record,” says Vieira, “but that wasn’t how it felt to us. We were more comfortable than last time; we had time to sit around drinking a few beers and trying different things. We didn’t think we had to rush.”
The result is a glorious exercise in blissed-out garage-pop that leans towards some of the trio’s more psychedelic influences more than ever before; they namecheck The Golden Dawn and Allah-Las in particular, as well as the Texas psych scene more generally. Las Dunas is due on June 1 via PNKSLM Recordings.
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