Name: The First Glass Beach Album
Brand: Glass Beach

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RFC204lp-C7

Colour

Blue

Colour details

Electric Blue

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-01-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

810097915015

Total Cap

Blue LPx2

RFC204

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Clear

Clear Vinyl

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2020-01-24

811408038898

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2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / clear

Artist

Glass Beach

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Run For Cover Records

Newest Listed Items

Glass Beach’s debate album The First Glass Beach Album is the first album from glass beach. That’s a good place to start, but the album’s plain and descriptive title does little to explain exactly what goes on in the hour-long adventure contained therein.

The First Glass Beach Album was initially self-released by the band in Spring 2019, but it’s roots date back to as early as 2015 - songwriter and band leader j mclendon started demoing songs for the album when they first moved to Los Angeles and spent three years polishing those first demos into these songs with bassist Jonas Newhouse and drummer William White. On their Bandcamp page, the band describes their sound as the accumulation of jazz, new wave, synth music, and emo distorted through the lens of punk.

The songs that make up The First Glass Beach Album are ambitious, theatrical and chaotic. Abandoning genre limitations makes glass beach’s talent for songwriting all the more apparent - mathy guitar leads, catchy drum grooves and the constant interplay of horns, synths, and even the intermittent theremin set the perfect scene for j’s stunning vocal performance, which can shift from a charming falsetto to the lead of a sing-a-long in an instant.

The First Glass Beach Album

Music US

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