Gay Beast - Second Wave (Skin Graft, 2009)

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How come this album barely received any press? It's beyond me. If I had known this were coming out earlier, I would've written this weeks ago. Despite the unpopularity of Gay Beast's sophomore album Second Wave, the album is great.

Just about every song on this album has this heavy and detuned sound that's hard to miss. Daniel Luedtke's vocals never depart from their chanting, pseudo-blues tone. The guitars sound like they're being strummed with a drill rather than a pick and the keyboard has a nearly identical sound to xbxrx. I don't remember much about their debut album Disrobics but I think this album is the first time they've included saxophone, then again I'm probably wrong. Saxophone is used quite a bit throughout Second Wave.

As far as lyrics go, they're probably very sexual. But isn't that how all noise rock bands are today? Or at least they were. Have you ever read an Arab On Radar lyric sheet? Give your kid that instead of giving him "the talk". All in all, if you follow the Skin Graft catalog or have an interest in noisy punk that's all over the place, pick this baby up.

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[Buy Second Wave from Skin Graft Records]