beach
fossils
ALBUM
REVIEW
By Katarina Barone
n the ever-expanding indie rock
universe, Dustin Payseur – the
pallid, rumple-haired creative
force behind Brooklyn’s Beach
Fossils – has blown up, grown
up, ‘Crashed Out’, and cashed in. He’s
drafted bandmates, licked-up bedsit
pop, and scorch-earthed countless
stages. Yet throughout four years of
artistic delights and defeats, Payseur’s
allegiance to an aesthetic of clean lines
and simple shapes has never wavered.
The Beach Fossils template remains
fixed:
shimmering,
uncomplicated
guitar melodies that one could play in
their sleep; detached, reedy vocals;
straightforward lyrics that sound
lifted from an adolescent’s dog-eared
journal. Or, distilled into a few words:
“Keep it simple, hipster.”
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