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‘Beat Bear’ Anew mural by Dulk paying tribute to the people and animals who lost their lives and their homes during the recent California fires. Marina Del Rey, CA.

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The bee’s have caught wind of our Bear’s honey hunt. They aren’t pleased.

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Translation of Beatbear Distractions review

Here's a very, very rough translation of that Italian review of The Distractions album we posted a little earlier. Yes, it's another rave...

Artist: The Distractions Album: The End Of The Pier Label: Occultation Recordings Year: 2012 This is a record which opens with typical rock chords and a time-worn voice yelling “I Don’t Have Time” and maybe that’s true, given that it’s been 30 years since Nobody’s Perfect. They are The Distractions and they’re back two generations later with a new record: both music itself and the world may have changed in the meantime, but what about them? A quick biographical scan tells us that the group are more British than tea and that they got started back in school in the environment of the 1980s. Actually in 1975 Mike Finney (vocals), together with Steve Perrin (guitar) formed a band which only gelled into a stable line-up in 1977, as a punk group with strong sixties influences. With their album Nobody’s Perfect they shared the stage with Buzzcocks and Joy Division without ever being overshadowed, and found their own place in the sun. 30 years after the Distractions line-up split they’ve reformed and they’re back with a new album and, perhaps even more so because of the long wait there’s a real curiosity about The End Of The Pier, an album whose mere release will’ve caused palpitations in the hearts of punks young and old. Mature rock with a strong British accent forms the backbone of the album, and a split opens up between the difference in styles, with more upbeat tracks and ballads. Because of the words and the melodies it’s impossible not to feel a hint of nostalgia; “Too Late To Change”, for instance, is a perfect mixture of the record’s styles in that it’s basically a rock ballad. There’s an effective balance between happy-go-lucky melodies such as “100 Times”, aggressive numbers like “Boots” (with lyrics about how the world has changed) and the aforementioned ballads which leave a romantic, melancholic aftertaste, such as “Wise”. It might seem as though all the tracks are heading in the same direction but actually that’s not the case, and there’s a full range of emotions to be detected in the subtle undercurrent. The End Of The Pier is a narrative which needs to be read between the lines, there’s no point making comparisons with the previous album, given the amount of time that’s elapsed between them, but this is a punk rock narrative which describes the present to us with a voice from the past.  Andrea Sangiovanni

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Italian review of End of the Pier on Beatbear

There's yet another review of the new Distractions album on the Italian Beatbear website, we'll get it translated as soon as we can...

Artista: The Dis­trac­tions

Album: The End Of The Pier

Etichetta: Occul­ta­tion Records

Anno:2012

Un disco che com­in­cia con i tipici accordi rock, una voce seg­nata dal tempo che grida“I Don’t Have Time”, forse è vero visto che sono pas­sati ben 30 anni da Nobody IS Per­fect; loro sono i The Dis­trac­tions e tor­nano dopo due gen­er­azioni con un nuovo disco: la musica ed il mondo intanto sono cam­biati, loro?

Una veloce panoram­ica biografica ci svela un gruppo più british del tea che nasce nell’ envi­ron­ment degli 80’s tra i banchi di scuola. Nel 1975 infatti Mike Finney (vocals) insieme a Steve Per­rin (chi­tarra) crea una band che tro­verà la sua for­mazione sta­bile nel 1977, come gruppo punk dalle forti influenze six­ties. Con il loro album Nobody’s Per­fect divi­dono la scena con Buz­zcocks e Joy Divi­sion senza essere messi nell’ombra e trovando un pro­prio posto al sole.

Dopo 30 anni tra sciogli­menti e ricos­ti­tuzioni della line up The Dis­trac­tions ripro­pon­gono un loro lavoro: forse più dell’attesa è la curiosità che muove verso The End Of The Pier, album che al suo solo apparire avrà provo­cato pal­pi­tazioni in cuori punk più o meno attem­pati. Un rock maturo dal pro­nun­ci­ato accento british è la spina dor­sale di questo lavoro, la for­bice della dif­ferenza di stile si apre tra i pezzi dai ritmi più sostenuti e le bal­late; gra­zie ai testi e alle melodie è impos­si­bile non sen­tirsi toc­cati da una nota nos­tal­gica; “Too Late To Change” ad esem­pio è un per­fetto mix dello stile del disco nel suo essere una rock bal­lad.

C’è un equi­lib­rio effi­cace tra melodie spen­sier­ate come “100 Times”, brani aggres­sivi come “Boots” (un testo sui cam­bi­a­menti del mondo) e le citate bal­lads dal ret­ro­gusto roman­tico e mal­in­con­ico come “Wise”. Potrebbe sem­brare che i pezzi vadano nella stessa direzione ma non è cosi: nelle sfu­ma­ture si legge una altal­ena di emozioni.

The End Of The Pierè un rac­conto che va letto tra le righe, è inutile fare parag­oni con l’album prece­dente, vista la quan­tità di tempo che li sep­ara; un rac­conto punk rock che ci descrive il pre­sente con una voce del passato.

 Andrea San­gio­vanni

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