The Beatings
Italiano
Midriff
2002
Rating: 7 baked beans out of 10
The Beatings manage to sound like the past while creating new sounds for the future. This Boston group have been getting comparisons to The Pixies, The Replacements, and most importantly, Husker Du – and justly so. Singer Eldridge Rodriguez sounds a whole hell of a lot like Bob Mould, and at times the music even sounds like an updated version of the Du; other times, you can feel an urgency in the recordings that comes across in the same way that the earlier, punker Replacements did. In addition to Rodriguez, Erin Dalbec adds a female voice to the mix that might make you think she’s the sweetest girl in the world one minute, and that she might kick you in the balls the next. They write very catchy songs, but are rocking at the same time - like the stuff you heard on college radio in the eighties...and hopefully in 2002 as well.
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