"You Need A Better Mind" by divergent indie alt rock band Beauty Pill feels (to me) like a scintillating kinetic amalgam of 70's Harry Nilsson drug induced psychedelic pop / Ben Vereen soul jazz pop (on Reading Rainbow), Radiohead, Thundercat, Dangermouse and 80's Japanses game shows. That, I know, is a lot to think about, alot to blend and distill in your mind and that is me, admittingly, riffing and what I am feeling as I listen to this cool progressive funky post alt rock hybrid of a song. At the helm here is guitarist, vocalist, songwriter Chad Clark who stirs in more to the story of this how this song came to be:
It makes freaky, wiggly, cartoony sounds. It sounds fuck-all like a bass guitar.
Why am I telling you this? One ended up in my hands for a week.
I did a lot of silly stuff with it. I did come up with this one worthwhile riff, which I built a song around. The song is called "You Need A Better Mind."
It was recorded with my band in a single take at the end of a recording session for another song. We were tired. None of us cared that much if we failed. The fun spirit you hear in this song is mostly exhaustion… that kind of punchy exhaustion you get late at night when you’ll laugh at anything.
The lyrics were inspired by the spooky/funny 10-minute movie “Rachel.” The song is about the scourge of American loneliness.
It is by far the fastest, easiest song Beauty Pill has ever created."
"You Need A Better Mind" is the second single from Beauty Pill's latest EP, "Instant Night" (dropping December 3, 2021) - read the EP's origin story at the band's Bandcamp page. This unique band is comprised of Basla Andolsun (bass), Chad Clark (vox, guitar), Drew Doucette (guitar), Erin Nelson (voice) and Devin Ocampo (drums, guitar) with the additional stellar talents of Victoria Banos (trumpet), Aaron Harman (bassoon), Sarah Hughes (saxophone), Don Godwin (tenor horn).
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Beauty Pill is a shapeshifting band from Washington, DC.
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/beautypillband/
https://twitter.com/beautypill
https://beautypill.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/beautypill/
Beauty Pill is a shapeshifting band from Washington, DC.
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