What an impossibly infectious, toe-tapping and joyful debut is this. If you can sit through its four-and-a-half minutes without so much as wriggling an eyebrow, you may either have a serious affliction or at least, hearing problems.
'Go', released on May 25, marks the first self-assured offering from Northern Irish five-piece Pleasure Beach (who comprise two members of psych pop group Yes Cadets: classically trained Rachel Toman, and Lisa Mageean), after forming only this January. It was written, say the band, in an isolated country house in rural County Down, as "a huge break-up song set against a strange and dreamy post-apocalyptic landscape."
Not that there is anything remotely downcast in this sunny piece of pop. All components in the track are 100% analogue, vintage Moog, Arp and Juno synths. The repetitive lead guitar line is played on a Fender Telecaster through a broken Digitech Whammy pedal, rhythm guitar on a Gibson Les Paul running through a filtered Moog synthesiser.
As for the last dreamy 60 seconds or so of 'Go', well that was created by the removal of the dry signal from the drums, leaving only the reverb that came from recording them in a large concrete stairwell, with a vocal loop over a wall of swooshy synthesiser drone from a layered Moog and Arp synths.
The band’s first live date will be a single launch show at The Menagerie, Belfast on June 5.
Pleasure Beach are:
Alan Haslam - guitar/vocals/keys
Lisa Mageean - drums/vocals
Kat Hepworth - guitar/vocals
Richard Crawford - bass/vocals
Rachel Toman - keys/vocals
Linn Branson
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