Name: Super Transporterreum EP
Brand: Menace Beach

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-MI-0378

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2015-10-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060146095877

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Menace Beach

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Memphis Industries

Menace Beach is a Leeds 'supergroup' led by joint singers Liza Violet and Ryan Needham. They are known for their dynamic sound, which is enhanced by the production skills of Matthew Johnson from Hookworms. The band also features a rotating lineup of talented artists from bands such as Pulled Apart By Horses, Sky Larkin, and Seize The Chair.

Inspired by a diverse range of musical influences, Menace Beach creates music that is both catchy and experimental. Their unique blend of indie rock and lo-fi pop has garnered them a dedicated fanbase.

If you enjoy the sounds of Our Girl, Dream Wife, or Goat Girl, then Menace Beach should definitely be on your radar. With their infectious energy and captivating live performances, this band is sure to leave an impression on any music lover.

Some bands don't mess about. Having released their debut album, Ratworld, in January of this year, Menace Beach's fizzing, over caffeinated creativity needed another outlet. So, in-between touring with the likes of Drenge and the Cribs, and becoming one of Johnny Marr's new favourite bands, Menace Beach found time to head into the Suburban Home studio with Hookworm's MJ to record a brand new EP, set for release this Autumn. With its title coming from a flu-fever hallucination Liza experienced while on tour, the title track Super Transporterreum perfectly sums up Menace Beach's off-kilter approach, all effervescent melody and hurtling fuzzed up guitars, not to mention the juddering half-speed choruses that, according to Menace Beach, feature "three bass guitars simultaneously doing a Bryan May riff." Hey Toupe is an adrenaline fuelled arpeggiated thrash that Ryan says is "about a guy in London that made my skin crawl so much that it left my body and started heading back up the M1".Elsewhere, Ghoul Power cranks up the grunge in a tale about a pocketsize alien ghoul who soaks up your darkness and anxieties, who ends up a sweaty pale wreck after Menace Beach take him to too many parties and shows ("It isn't meant to be as cheaply metaphorical as it sounds" says Ryan). The Line's big hearted Big Star inspired melodicism was written after spending the afternoon doing a Geri Haliwellworkout video in Rotterdam with a pensioner, and Radiate Me is either about being so fed up "I was praying for a nuclear missile to smash straight into my stupid face" (Ryan) or "A nice song about the sun" (Liza). The Super Transporterreum EP is a distillation of what Menace Beach have previously called their "own grubby little Ratworld", this time with added technicolour. With band leaders Ryan and Liza's unmistakable vocal interplay coming to the fore, their lopsided surreal and esoteric creativity means they have created a sound that is unmistakably their own.

Super Transporterreum EP

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