Beach Fossils is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2009. They are currently signed to Bayonet Records, having previously been signed to indie label Captured Tracks. The group's live band currently includes founder Dustin Payseur, Jack Doyle Smith (bass), Tommy Davidson (guitar), and Anton Hochheim (drums).
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"I heard this record when I was in high school. Their use of reverb and all this stuff was different than I'd heard before because I was kind of into like, I don't know how you'd say, like my first show was The Killers when I was a kid and so this kind of put me onto a different vibe."Watch this moment
"this Modern English album After the Snow is probably what in a way kicked off the sound for the first Beach Fossils record. Everyone knows Melt With You from this album but it has so many good songs on it."Watch this moment
"this one's probably his saddest record, in the wee small hours... it's kind of interesting just like him being sad and lonely, pretty much beautiful like melancholy ballads."Watch this moment
"Verve Storm in Heaven, another example of like a band that was huge that has an album that's super underrated. I think not enough people talk about this record; it's like one of the greatest shoegaze albums I think and like it's very psychedelic and there's really nothing else that sounds like it."Watch this moment
"this is the collection of greatest hits too so we have like dizzy which is probably I mean it's probably one of my favorites get down with that one off of dizzy up the girl that record and then I mean just somebody getting a Black Balloon Black Balloon I did this on black and it's like never heard it no it almost has like this like Pearl Jam kind of like Jeremy spoken like harmonic guitar vibe going on in the beginning."Watch this moment
"I have the Associates' 'Sulk.' They're like an amazing Scottish post-punk band, kind of dark and challenging and gothy, but they also have like really poppy kind of synth pop songs."Watch this moment
"I think I'm paranoid, of course the banger. I think 'Medication' is really sick too... really cool guitar passages and stuff. Yeah, amazing record."Watch this moment
"when I was going to school I was working at my radio station and I discovered this like in the archives I just burned this into the ground I just was constantly listening to it the production's so sick... This Record has like some just crazy fun syncopated really like r&b kind of adjacent super tight tight like gated drones."Watch this moment
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