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Beta Band

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The Three EPs

 

Tracklist

(Vinyl)
   Champion Versions      
A1   Dry The Rain      6:05
A2   I Know      3:58
A3   B + A      6:35
B1   Dogs Got A Bone      5:58
   The Patty Patty Sound      
B2   Inner Meet Me      6:20
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Review


Part Scottish, part English and totally twisted, the Beta Band is making someof the most invigorating new music in Britain. Except that nothing on TheThree E.P.'s, a roundup of the group's initial minialbum releases, reallyseems to go pop! -- at first. With melting-brass licks, Stephen Mason'sspindly slide guitar and his sleepy Gregorian-blues moan, the opening number,"Dry the Rain," moves like the Rolling Stones' "No Expectations" at sixteenrpm. Imagine Pavement without the amps, the Verve drunk and unplugged, Beckminus the white-soul-dada… Read More

routine, and you have the bruised folk-with-funk mixof cheapo electronics, scrap-yard percussion and fireside-raga vocals in "IKnow" and "Inner Meet Me."

But Mason, bassist Richard Greentree, drummer Robin Jones and DJ John McLeanare up to a subtle, eclectic mischief that really goes back to the Beatles'White Album via the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique and theradical sound games of the German band Faust. "B+A" is a blast of mad-hatterdynamics: McLean's rusted-drum-machine samples, modal chanting, a huge groovedriven by pie-plate-cymbal crashes. The first half of the eight-minute "She'sthe One" is a bleary torch song with whooping synth, boxy percussion and aMinnie Mouse-vocal chorus. Then Mason's chiming, George Harrison-like guitarpops out of the murk and the simple, repeated chorus ("She's the one for me")becomes a "Hey Jude"-style blowout.

The Betas need some lessons in brevity; "The House Song" and "Monolith" areoverlong dub yawns. Yet there is something cleansing-a purity of spirit anda tripped-out glee-about the lava-flow tempo and insidiously catchy clutterof The Three E.P.'s. The Beta Band takes its sweet, loopy time blowingyour mind, but it does the job right. (RS 805)

DAVID FRICKE




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  Beta Band   The Three E.p.'s
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Many Light Surface Marks On Fully Playable Cd, With Inserts, Like New Digipak L Case Uk, Regal, Reg23cd, 1998
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  Beta Band   The Three Ep's
Japanese Pressing, Promo Sample, 1998, Tocp-50655, 12-tracks, With Obi Strip -obi Has A Scotch Tape Of 1", [rj024] Japan, Toshiba Emi, Tocp-50655, 1998
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  BETA BAND   The Three Eps (20th Anniversary Edition)
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  CD   MINT (SEALED)/MINT Netdiscs
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  Beta Band   The Three Eps - Promo Window Laminate Sticker Set
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Rare Set Of 3 20.5cm X 20.5cm Promotional Window Laminate Stickers. 3 Different Designs In Turn Using The Star, Dynamite And Tiger Artwork From The Front Cover Printed In Colour
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