So optimistic and sweeping are these tunes that, on first listen, it is easy to breeze over Børild’s occasionally heavyweight lyrics. ‘It scares me every day, it’s out of my control / This so-called afterlife and what happens to us all,’ he blithely sings to a loved one on Live And Let Live, all the while a fluttering guitar lick sounds like a bluebird about to land (or shit) on his shoulder. On the nerve-jangling Death Of A Nation, he decries ‘fascism for everybody’ and longs to ‘join the caravan en route to outer space’. Erm, any spare seats, mate?
While some might consider Beachheads II a throwback to Gen X slackerdom, it’s a welcome and hummable distraction from modern stresses. Ideal listening for sitting back in the deck chair of the mind and watching the boiling waves roll by.
Verdict: 3/5
For fans of: Spielbergs, The Lemonheads, Dinosaur Jr.
Beacheads II is released on March 4 via Fysisk Format