Lav's Music Corner

Beach Slang is a Philly based punk rock project of James Alex who first exploded onto the scene in 2015 with their great debut album The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us . They followed it up quickly with a moderately well received sophomore record before spending a year experimenting with a quieter version of their sound under the "Quiet Slang" moniker. Now they are back with their first record of new studio material in four years and the singles took a much more classic rock inspired approach. Review By Lavender: The debut record from Beach Slang remains one of the most underrated rock records of this entire decade as the youthful flare frontman James Alex taps into is a consistently captivating sound. Since this record the group has slowly began to let more and more of the punk flare they once had go in favor of more conventional classic rock sounds or flat out acoustic ones, and on Heartbreak City  they go even further down this path with their most con...

Top 10 EPs Of 2017: Here we have yet another list that may need some adjustments in years to come, but not quite yet. With the rise of the "Mixtape" in the Soundcloud crowd and the short 20-30 minute album making a comeback in a post Desiigner's "New English" world the EPs list is coming down to a very specific classification section. It's to be determined where it will go in the future and we can decide as a whole next year. We just have to understand that an EP is anything that's called an EP and leave it at that.  Catch XXXTENTACION'S "17" and Ski Mask The Slump God's "You Will Regret" in the album list as that's what they were marketed as, despite the fact that some of these EPs significantly out last them in length, technicalities. 10. David Bowie - No Plan EP David Bowie's posthumous EP came out very early in the year but that's no reason to forget about it as it brings the house on its 3 new ...

With 2 albums and an EP that could all be fantastic, the ceiling for this week's releases is massively high. 3. We Were Babies & We Were Dirtbags (Quiet Slang) James Alex of modern punk band Beach Slang worked on this solo EP of reworked Beach Slang favorites like Future Mixtape For The Art Kids and Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas from their first two albums as a group and worked in a cover of Big Star's classic "Thirteen". The songs edge of punky thrashy energy are traded out for a more toned down "quiet" sound. It's just 4 tracks but it could be the first step to bigger things for James Alex, who doesn't need to prove his talent to anyone. 2. Glasshouse (Jessie Ware) Jessie Ware is back and you should be excited. The singles have been wonderful so far and there's no reason to expect this to not have some quality standard throughout. This has the potential to be the best effort from Jessie yet and it will likely be a must listen by the ...