To Smithereens [Vinyl]

Hear Ye! Fear Ye! Gay Beast make music that is queer in composition and aesthetic. Wielding a battery of drums, scraped and hammered guitars, chanted vocals, retro-future synths, saxophone, and other electronics, the trio build songs on grounds that adjoin complexity and catchiness, a space where both abrasion and tunefulness inhabit. “To Smithereens” contains remnants of Devo, Captain Beefheart, equatorial pop-rock, no wave, and feminist theory delivered via a unique political approach to composition.