Crushed Beaks
Scatter
February 9 2015 (Matilda Records)
7.5/10
Words: Alison Mack
The former two-piece noise pop Crushed Beaks - Matthew Poile, vocals/guitar and Alex Morris, drums - are newly expanded - by the inclusion of bassist Scott Bowley - on this long-time-coming debut album.
The ten-track record, recorded in film composer Fabio Frizzi's Rome studio, retains all of the original two's dynamism, with the added backbone of Bowley to lend further weight, this was sure to be a work that was not intended for fragile ears. And it isn't.
From the lead single ‘Rising Sign’, all about Poile’s urgent, gnarly vocals as he declares, “the more I think about / the less I care”, to the older refrains of 'Feelers', which carries itself midway through the album, its chorus still igniting on its tension spring as it has done for well over a year since first heard.
With the strident hooks and crashing pace of 'Overgrown', the reverb-textured 'Memory Loss', and the under two-minute punchy punk of ‘Grim’, it is apparent Crushed Beaks have not forsaken any of their live visceral vibrancy on record.
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