“Dirty Photographs” is the follow-up to the Northern Ireland power duo’s 2016 LP, “Arrow Pierce My Heart”, and while it retains the garage/blues flair of past efforts, the 11-track album is more upbeat both musically and lyrically. The title track is actually a love song, albeit one that lives up to its adults-only title.
EARLY STREAM OF THE ALBUM!
Flows like an acid trip as it wanders through genres and moods, like a swirl popsicle that changes flavor with each new lick. But more than anything, it reveals a new sophistication to their sound as they explore instruments and arrangements as musicians while maintaining their gritty, haunting, swampy natural style. – WHAT YOUTH
A balanced combination of ingenuity and nonchalance. – REVIEW HERE
BEECHWOOD opening gig for DAVID JOHANSEN at ELSEWHERE NY
The first band was a local band called Beechwood, who I mistakenly passed off as a cross between Noel Fielding’s cheekbones and uber-cool mod haircut from the The Mighty Boosh and a hotter-than-thou glam rock band like The Sweet or Mott the Hoople, but they turned out to be so much more. Their sound is a classic, hot and sweaty, raw and nasty, rock and roll spirit, that commands the room with a real classic NYC sound, like a mix of Velvet Underground, Ramones, and aptly for the night, the New York Dolls, and their killer cover of The Kinks’ “I’m Not Like Everybody Else” nearly blew the lid of the place. – REVIEW HERE
Beechwood look and sound like 100% New York City. In today’s Friday Fire Track you will immediately hear their influences of The Stooges and New York Dolls while embracing the more pop side of the Velvet Underground.
The New York psych/punk glam-rock trio blend guitarist Lawrence’s absorbing garage-rock vocals to a song lyrically focussed on the ‘masks’ we wear, hence the visual depiction. – LITTLE INDIE HERE