Name: Dream Violence
Brand: Michael Beach

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

169GONELP

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Black

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Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-03-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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767870662812

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

169GONECD

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Artist

Michael Beach

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Goner

Goner is an independent punk garage rock record label and record store based in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Co-owned by Eric Friedl and Zac Ives, Goner has established itself as a prominent force in the underground music scene.
With a focus on raw and energetic music, Goner has become known for its roster of talented artists who push boundaries and challenge conventions. From *The Oblivians* to *Jay Reatard*, Goner has consistently released groundbreaking albums that have garnered critical acclaim.
In addition to being a record label, Goner also operates a physical store where music enthusiasts can discover and purchase vinyl records from both local and international artists. The store serves as a hub for the vibrant Memphis music community, hosting live performances and events that celebrate the spirit of independent music.

Dream Violence, Michael Beach’s fourth full-length, is an epic album that explores the duality of the human condition. Known for his work touring with the Australian guitar pop band Thigh Master and the late, brilliantly eccentric Israeli guitarist Charlie Megira, currently the focus of a number of reissues by the Numero Group, Beach is the architect of a sound that is both well-built and ramshackle, straightforward and indeterminably complex, out of the norm yet familiar in all the best ways.

Dream Violence unfolds like a revelation, filled with sonic tumbleweeds that reference Neil Young’s On the Beach, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, the Velvet Underground’s Loaded, and the Go Betweens’ Before Hollywood. Influences ranging from the enigmatic outlier Megira to Glenn Branca to the Oblivians are combined to create a new, exhilarating sound, part of the path that Beach has been on since 2008’s Blood Courses. A veteran of year-end indie rock round ups beginning with Golden Theft in 2013 and continuing with Gravity/Repulsion, released in 2017, Beach distills the best of those early albums and adds sharpened intent.

Recorded on two continents, Dream Violence documents Beach’s move from Oakland, California to Melbourne, Australia as he navigated a new music scene, plenty of bureaucratic red tape, and, ultimately, citizenship. Parts of the album were recorded and mixed at Tiny Telephone Recording in Oakland, at the end of a 2019 tour with Kelley Stoltz producing. Other tracks were recorded at Beach’s new home in Melbourne, where he could be “relaxed and sloppy in all the right ways,” and partially remixed at Phaedra Studios.

Dream Violence

Music GB