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Artist | Gospelbeach
Title | Another Summer Of Love
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 42:15
Label | Alive Records Store | 2017
Catalog | 0192-2 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 252 kbps Size | 79.81 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. In The Desert 4:41
02. Hangin' On 2:38
03. California Fantasy 4:47
04. You're Already Home 4:46
05. (I Wanna See U) All The Time 3:27
06. Strange Days 3:14
07. Sad Country Boy 3:05
08. Kathleen 3:11
09. The City Limits 3:46
10. I Don't Wanna Lose You 4:18
11. Runnin' Blind 4:22
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Featuring a handful of noted veterans of the West Coast indie pop
community, GospelbeacH play music that harks back to several eras of
California music, from folk-rock and sunshine pop to country-rock and the
paisley underground scene. GospelbeacH were formed in 2014 by vocalist and
guitarist Brent Rademaker, who in the '90s and 2000s had made a name for
himself in the bands Beachwood Sparks, Further, and the Tyde. Rademaker had
grown disenchanted with music as a career and spent a few years in Florida,
where he worked at a gallery framing artwork. But after Rademaker
reconnected with drummer Tom Sanford, who had played in an early lineup of
Beachwood Sparks, the two began jamming together for fun and Rademaker felt
the urge to form a new band to play the songs he'd been writing with
Sanford.
After debuting with an album that captured the good-time, easy feeling of
the early-70s version of the Grateful Dead at their warmest, GospelbeacH
return with a second album that jumps ahead a decade or so, switches gears
sonically, and in the process makes a bigger impression. Under the guidance
of Beachwood Sparks' Brent Rademaker, on "Another Summer Of Love" the band
shelves its impressively deep Dead worship in favor of some serious Tom
Petty & The Heartbreakers vibes. From the jangling warmth of the guitars to
the hooky choruses, the subtle keyboards to the ringing, overdriven guitar
solos that feel lifted from Mike Campbell's bag of tricks, the album is
like a lost Heartbreakers classic made just before Petty went solo on Full
Moon Fever in the late 80s.
The band's Jason Soda (like Rademaker, another West Coast musical lifer)
handles the production duties, and using a mix of acoustic guitars,
12-string electrics, vintage keys, vocal harmonies, and the Mellotron the
band America used in the 70s, he gets a richly organic sound that's
stadium-sized while being far warmer and more human-sounding than anything
Petty would have done in the 80s. To go along with the upgrade in sound,
Rademaker's songs are some of the strongest he's put on wax in a while,
with midtempo ballads like the very pretty "In The Desert" sounding really
good next to chugging, Petty-sounding rockers ('Sad Country Boy'),
post-Byrds rockers ('Hangin' On'), barroom rockers that sound like Dwight
Twilley in a cowboy hat ('Kathleen'), and cinematic soft rock ('I Don't
Wanna Lose You').
He and Soda make a fine writing team, and the assembled players (including
Miranda Lee Richards on backing vocals) have all the tightness and snap of
a working band, sort of like the Heartbreakers in their prime. "Another
Summer Of Love" is not a million miles away from what GospelbeacH tried to
do on their first album - Petty and the Dead certainly share large chunks
of musical DNA - but here the energy and sense of purpose the group
displays make it a much more cohesive and entertaining record, filler-free
and radio-ready. It's one of the most focused and hooky records Rademaker
has made in his long history, and it's far more together and poppy than one
may have guessed after hearing the band's first album.
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