Today, the Brooklyn-based band Le Big Zero are thrilled to share “Beach Séance” and it’s accompanying video. The song is the second single from their upcoming album, A Proper Mess, set for release on April 8, 2022 via Know Hope Records out of Philadelphia. Pre-order a physical copy or pre-save the album on your preferred streaming service HERE. The song follows on the heels of the album’s lead single “Horror Movie Pie Fight.”
Following their critically-lauded debut album, 2019’s Ollie Oxen Free, the new LP is a high-energy cocktail of garage rock and off-kilter punk. Vocalists Michael Pasuit and Carolina Aguilar continue their wry exploration of monotony and anxiety in the modern age, via a Frank Black-Kim Deal-esque sonic intertwining. The album is a reflective, messy love-letter to uncertainty and the choice to just press onward.
Speaking on the origins of the song, Pasuit writes: “The guitar riff was a fun exercise in syncopated noise. Someone told me it reminded them of Sleater-Kinney, which we were thrilled by. As the rhythm section, Tim and Ben did most of the heavy lifting in creating the vibe of the song. The main hits on the chorus are on the “four and” beat, which gives it a nice off-kilter feel. After a rehearsal or two of working on it, Carolina said the song sounded “beachy” while I thought it sounded a little eerie. Again, we went the way of abstraction, married the two ideas and explored what that could possibly look like. It’s probably the most ridiculous of our songs conceptually.”
