Beige Banquet’s “Cold Yoghurt” is out today, along with the debut album “Beta,” diy post punk in its truest fashion. The track exhibits the raw musicality and creative determination of Beige Banquet’s Tom Brierley, embarking on a solo endeavor unique to the pandemic and the times. He still manages to bring something organic, fervent and energetic to the table with “Cold Yoghurt,” and the rest of the album. The album, set with fine cover art by Robin Roche, is now available to hear on all online platforms and on cassette via Just Step Sideways. The first run of the cassettes sold out, so get this second run while they’re hot. I’ve gotta get my hands on one too, so I can play it loud on my portable in a mostly empty park. Listen to “Beta” if good music is what you’re into.
-Alyssa Holland
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Formed in 2020, Beige Banquet is the solo recording project of guitarist and vocalist Tom Brierley. Although subsequently expanded into a full live band, the DIY debut album Beta was entirely written, recorded and produced in Brierley’s bedroom studio during the first half of 2020, and is his first full-length since releasing a string of EPs with post-punk bands PKNN (London) and NOUGHTS (Melbourne).
After a critically acclaimed response to their 2020 debut single ‘Wired/Weird’, including airplay on BBC Introducing London, Boogaloo Radio, Amazing Radio and PBS (Melbourne), the follow-up album is an exciting feast of 12 drum-machine-driven, bedroom-recorded and self-produced outsider/weirdo/art/post-punk tracks, delivered within 33 minutes.
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