Blame Game EP＜限定盤＞

USビルボードチャート入りも果たした現代最高峰のパワーポップをかき鳴らすUSインディ新鋭、最新EP!

2020年リリースのデビュー作「HONEYMOON」が大ヒットし、USビルボードチャートにもインするなど確実に勢いが増すパワーポップ新星BEACH BUNNY。その勢いから早速繰り出される新作EP「BLAME GAME」はバンドアンサンブルがさらに強靭になったパワフル盤!!

先行公開曲『Good Girls (Don't Get Used)』(タイトルが牙剥いてますね)のデビュー作から地続きな泣き成分と焦燥感一杯のギターに胸は高鳴る訳ですが、メロディラインが少し複雑になって展開もちょっとずつ景色が変わるような細かいアレンジが施されている等頼もしい成長を見せてくる所も!そして太くなったボトムがガシガシと前に来る演奏は圧巻!

MVのどことなく漂うやるせなさやジャケットの眉をひそめ気味な表情から分かるパワーポップ的美学が相変わらず炸裂しているのもGOOD!

Chicago fuzz-pop outfit Beach Bunny follow up their highly rated 2020 debut with Blame Game, a brief but effective four-song EP. After a handful of early solo releases, frontwoman Lili Trifilio relaunched Beach Bunny as an indie rock quartet, giving her anxious exaltations a more durable and raucous edge. There was plenty to like about their last outing, Honeymoon, and fans of that release will likely find this side dish to be just as satisfying, albeit more condensed. Led by the inescapably tuneful Good Girls (Dont Get Used), Blame Game is woven with the connective tissues of sexism, incel -- involuntary celibate -- culture, turbulent relationships, and toxic masculinity, themes all too familiar to young women trying to connect in modern society. Even in the face of such challenges, Trifilio brings an optimistic tone to her songwriting, wrought as it is with an innate sense of weariness. This was one of the strengths of Beach Bunnys debut, and that bittersweetness comes through here as well on the bouncy Nice Guys and the dreamy title track. Her vocals seem to land at the breaking point of punk power and wistful yearning, lending the songs an allure that dovetails neatly with the crunchy, pop-driven arrangements. As a stand-alone release or an aperitif to their next full-length, Blame Game is another solid entry in the Beach Bunny canon. ~ Timothy Monger