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The Coast Is Never Clear
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The Coast Is Never Clear
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by Beulah
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$12.98
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This is a coast that should definitely be sailed down. Elephant 6 band Beulah is in fine form in their third album "Coast is Never Clear," exploring new turf while never straying too far from their polished pop sound. It's catchy, fun, but still rich and textured and insanely catchy. It kicks off with the rich "Hello Resolven," before heading into a buzzing, harder guitar riff that is joined by bells, chants, and a tambourine in the musically upbeat, lyrically downbeat "A Good Man is Hard To Kill." A more rock-oriented sensibility enters with the solid "Gene Autrey" and vaguely punky "Silver Lining." A somewhat more mellow sound enters with songs like "Waiting For Sunset," a surprisingly gentle song with a warm brass intro, or the cute, lulling pop of "Burned By the Sun." But the catchiness is never far away with songs like the bouncy, percussion-laden "Gravity's Bringing Us Down." It ends on a pensive note with the insecure, horn-led "Night is the Day Turned Inside Out." Imagine the Beach Boys on tranquilizers, meditating on the sunset with an orchestra behind them. That's what Beulah sounds like. Music much like Beulah's is what gives indie-pop its reputation -- well orchestrated, well-written, and indescribably compelling. One of the best things about Beulah is their instrumentation -- typical indie rock is spiced up with bells, trumpets, tambourines, chimes, strings, and other things that add a warmer tone to the music. The instrumentation slips in and out effortlessly, leaving off and picking up, and slipping together in a seamless weave. It's almost impossible to keep track of it all. Miles Kurosky has a pleasantly murmury voice, even when singing a heartwrenching song about his injured father. "When you flew through that windshield/And your life passed reel the reel/Was there a bit part for me?" he asks. The songwriting is riddled with beautiful images of fireworks, frozen suns, dying summer, and lovers clinging to plane wings. Dreamy, punky, and riddled with solid instrumentation and beautiful songwriting, Beulah's third album is a must have for music-lovers. Even if "The Coast is Never Clear."
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