Cassette
Bayonet Records (2020) US 2020
Beach Fossils’s self-titled debut album is a seminal release from the halcyon days of Brooklyn’s underground music scene. Songwriter and composer Dustin Payseur’s home-recorded masterpiece captures the naïveté of youth, the anxiety of routine, and the joy of infatuation, though a tracklist full of layered guitars and heartfelt lyrics. Beach Fossils take inspiration from 60’s jangle pop, 70’s krautrock, 80’s post-punk, to create a sound uniquely their own with this record, causing a ripple effect on the sound of indie music in the years that followed it.