CD - The Bevis Frond - Focus On Nature
CD - The Bevis Frond - Focus On Nature
1 CD - UK Import
"Focus On Nature" is the new studio album from celebrated post-psych singer songwriter Nick Saloman and his band The Bevis Frond. Seventy-five minutes of glorious melodies that span 60s psych, English folk, The Wipers, the buzzsaw pop of Dinosaur Jr, and Hendrix-esque explorations.
There's always an element of playful Englishness to their music. The cult icons have produced another off-kilter mix of melodic piano-led melancholy, acoustic ruminations, scratchy garage rock with a punky edge and full-on guitar histrionics.
Like its much-praised predecessor, "Little Eden", the new record studies the world's weariness but fills out a bigger canvas; fast food and global warming, broken hearts and long gone nights out, everyday immortality, and being God's gift all share space. It's like Townshend at his most thematic; Big Star in all their acoustic glory, perfectly balancing the punky garage rock combo who end up running on ‘Empty’ with Gilmour breaks that elevate it all to grandeur.