"Hey when you’re blown away / Freeze framed from the days / Illness of vanity to..."
Take a hundred people, 33 who primarily love indie rock, 33 who primarily alt country, 33 who dig alt rock most and 1 guy who digs punk and they would all love "Pear Plum Blues" by Athens, Georgia based Drew Beskin & The Sunshine. The sound is big, anthemic, brilliantly celebratory with screaming leads in sustain, big snaking bass lines, droning tones, awesome tom tom beat and Drew's evocative every man vocal aesthetic. Not that this track feels gleeful and Pollyanna. No, if Drew is wearing rose color glasses they are likely cracked and blood splattered. There is within in the big empowered sound, a feeling of melancholia, of chaos, of fights taken up or backed down from. The curious poetic lyrics are hard for me to decipher but they are very alluring. I might have to hit up Drew and find out what the back story is.
These lines stick in my head and I love vague interpretive words:
and I wonder about the chorus as I sing along with raised fist (figuratively speaking):
This cool track is from the full length "Somewhere Sideways Same As You" that drops on September 23 via Super Canoe/We Bought a Zoo Records.
You can preorder here: https://somewheresidewayssameasyoualbum.fanlink.to/DrewBeskinandTheSunshine
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.drewbeskin.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Od8rMzCDUbIB7Es1MIEwH?si=osypZR6DTtmPLlzb2JMrlg&nd=1
https://www.instagram.com/drewbeskin/
https://drewbeskin.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/DREWBESKIN
https://www.facebook.com/DrewBeskin
In the Fall of 2020, longtime Athen, GA songwriter and performer Drew Beskin was tracking his first song with his brand new band. Producer and guitarist Tommy Trautwein proclaimed that it sounded like…Sunshine. And it did — a break in the murky sadness of the pandemic, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Beskin’s favorite band, Oasis, and their usage of that word inspired the group’s name Drew Beskin & The Sunshine.
The 11-song album that followed, Somewhere Sideways Same As You, was tracked in 11 days, albeit across several months. Known for the past few years as primarily a solo artist, Beskin warmed to the idea of a new band and, to this end, enlisted the aforementioned Trautwein along with brothers Elijah & Gideon Johnston.
“We went into the studio for a one off session to try out a new tune with no plans of doing much else,” Beskin says, “It was my first time recording with my friends who would become & The Sunshine. We tracked everything for the song in a day. The end result was so much fun and we just took it one song and day at a time until we realized we were making an album.”
Beskin brings his nuanced approach to pop-rock songwriting from over a decade of releasing albums as a solo artist and frontman for The District Attorneys, Party Dolls and PURSES. When not working on his own projects, you may find him collaborating with many other artists/friends such as Tedo Stone, Cowboy Curtys, Elijah Johnston, Well Kept among others. His album with The Sunshine is his follow up to 2021’s critically praised Problematic for the People.
Somewhere Sideways Same As You drops on September 23 via Super Canoe/We Bought a Zoo Records.
** At this particular time we find ourselves in a financial pinch due to many factors. We want to keep AP going. It has been a passion project for over 13 years. PLEASE consider donating, we could really use the support. Thanks so much
We get by with a little help from our friends
Drew Beskin & The Sunshine, indie rock, alt rock, garage rock, indie pop, Athens, Georgia, "Pear Plum Blues", Americana rock, new album, "Somewhere Sideways Same As You",
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.drewbeskin.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Od8rMzCDUbIB7Es1MIEwH?si=osypZR6DTtmPLlzb2JMrlg&nd=1
https://www.instagram.com/drewbeskin/
https://drewbeskin.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/DREWBESKIN
https://www.facebook.com/DrewBeskin
In the Fall of 2020, longtime Athen, GA songwriter and performer Drew Beskin was tracking his first song with his brand new band. Producer and guitarist Tommy Trautwein proclaimed that it sounded like…Sunshine. And it did — a break in the murky sadness of the pandemic, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to Beskin’s favorite band, Oasis, and their usage of that word inspired the group’s name Drew Beskin & The Sunshine.
The 11-song album that followed, Somewhere Sideways Same As You, was tracked in 11 days, albeit across several months. Known for the past few years as primarily a solo artist, Beskin warmed to the idea of a new band and, to this end, enlisted the aforementioned Trautwein along with brothers Elijah & Gideon Johnston.
“We went into the studio for a one off session to try out a new tune with no plans of doing much else,” Beskin says, “It was my first time recording with my friends who would become & The Sunshine. We tracked everything for the song in a day. The end result was so much fun and we just took it one song and day at a time until we realized we were making an album.”
Beskin brings his nuanced approach to pop-rock songwriting from over a decade of releasing albums as a solo artist and frontman for The District Attorneys, Party Dolls and PURSES. When not working on his own projects, you may find him collaborating with many other artists/friends such as Tedo Stone, Cowboy Curtys, Elijah Johnston, Well Kept among others. His album with The Sunshine is his follow up to 2021’s critically praised Problematic for the People.
Somewhere Sideways Same As You drops on September 23 via Super Canoe/We Bought a Zoo Records.
** At this particular time we find ourselves in a financial pinch due to many factors. We want to keep AP going. It has been a passion project for over 13 years. PLEASE consider donating, we could really use the support. Thanks so much
We get by with a little help from our friends
Drew Beskin & The Sunshine, indie rock, alt rock, garage rock, indie pop, Athens, Georgia, "Pear Plum Blues", Americana rock, new album, "Somewhere Sideways Same As You",
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