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Beach Fossils | Clash The Truth

Captured Tracks (2013)

By LIZ PELLY | February 20, 2013

3.5 Stars

Last year in an interview with the Phoenix, Dustin Payseur of Beach Fossils said his sophomore album would be inspired by "a lot of frustration from a lot of different sources." That sentiment surfaces in the first minutes of the opening title track: "Clash the Truth" is a fast two-minute song featuring much of the same jangly guitar work as their 2012 debut, but Payseur's vocals sound punchier and higher in the mix, a departure from their previous summery pace. Other immediately grabbing tracks here are "Generational Synthetic" — a song which Payseur told us is about the complications of artists making money from corporate sponsors — as well as "In Vertigo," a song with guest vocals by Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead. The beauty of Beach Fossils has always been in the tension between Payseur's disaffected deadpan and the band's super-visceral live shows (before Beach Fossils, he spent years playing in hardcore bands) and on Clash much of that post-punk energy translates seamlessly.

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