{"title":"Menace Beach","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMenace Beach is a Leeds 'supergroup' led by joint singers \u003ci\u003eLiza Violet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRyan Needham\u003c\/i\u003e. They are known for their dynamic sound, which is enhanced by the production skills of \u003ci\u003eMatthew Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e from Hookworms. The band also features a rotating lineup of talented artists from bands such as Pulled Apart By Horses, Sky Larkin, and Seize The Chair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by a diverse range of musical influences, Menace Beach creates music that is both catchy and experimental. Their unique blend of indie rock and lo-fi pop has garnered them a dedicated fanbase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoy the sounds of Our Girl, Dream Wife, or Goat Girl, then Menace Beach should definitely be on your radar. With their infectious energy and captivating live performances, this band is sure to leave an impression on any music lover.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ratworld","title":"Ratworld","description":"\u003cp\u003eBack in the good old of days of 1990, colour dream games released Menace Beach for the then popular nes games console from nintendo. Imagine skateboarding through a side-scrolling 8-bit world filled with balloons, clowns and disgruntled dockworkers in search of your cute pixilated girlfriend bunny. It's from this slightly surreal, esoteric world that this Leeds indie rock revolving cast of local luminaries, headed by Ryan Needham and Liza Violet, draw their name. It's reference acts as the perfect backdrop to their 90's American underground and pre-Brit pop indie; melody heavy, supercharged pop that's always surprising. After the success of their EP 'Lowtalker' in early 2014, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemphis Industries snapped Menace Beach up with the band's debut album in mind. It comes in the shape of 'Ratworld', a twelve song assault, a journey through a psyche tinged wonderland, documenting moving away and waving goodbye to the fractured rubble of an unhappy lifestyle. on the title, ryan says \"we've created our own grubby little ratworld to inhabit. everything is better when it's a bit grubby and broken\". it's that dreamy sensation of taking comfort in chaos, looking around at the perfect mess you've created and feeling deeply content as it's yours and no one else's. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e180 Gram Green Splatter Coloured Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Memphis Industries","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50492361113931,"sku":"382171","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9eb330c7-77c3-4c67-9ee7-db5acb025974_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727691850"},{"product_id":"super-transporterreum-ep","title":"Super Transporterreum EP","description":"\u003cp\u003e180 Gram Vinyl 5 track EP with Download. Some bands don't mess about. Having released their debut album, 'Ratworld', in January of this year, Menace Beach's fizzing, over caffeinated creativity needed another outlet. So, in-between touring with the likes of Drenge and the Cribs, and becoming one of Johnny Marr's new favourite bands, Menace Beach found time to head into the Suburban Home studio with Hookworm's MJ to record a brand new EP. With its title coming from a flu-fever hallucination Liza experienced while on tour, the title track 'Super Transporterreum' perfectly sums up Menace Beach's off-kilter approach, all effervescent melody and hurtling fuzzed up guitars, not to mention the  juddering half-speed choruses that, according to Menace Beach, feature \"three bass guitars simultaneously doing a Bryan May riff.\" 'Hey Toupe' is an adrenaline fuelled arpeggiated thrash that Ryan says is \"about a guy in London that made my skin crawl so much that it left my body and started heading back up the M1\". Elsewhere, 'Ghoul Power' cranks up the grunge in a tale about a pocketsize alien ghoul who soaks up your darkness and anxieties, who ends up a sweaty pale wreck after Menace Beach take him to too many parties and shows (\"It isn't meant to be as cheaply metaphorical as it sounds\" says Ryan). 'The Line's big hearted Big Star inspired melodicism was written after spending the afternoon doing a Geri Haliwell workout video in Rotterdam with a pensioner, and 'Radiate Me' is either about being so fed up \"I was praying for a nuclear missile to smash straight into my stupid face\" (Ryan) or \"A nice song about the sun\" (Liza). The 'Super Transporterreum' EP is a distillation of what Menace Beach have previously called their \"own grubby little Ratworld\", this time with added technicolour. With band leaders Ryan and Liza's unmistakable vocal interplay coming to the fore, their lopsided surreal and esoteric creativity means they have created a sound that is unmistakably their own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Memphis Industries","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50493640376651,"sku":"391833","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e19e60f7-120e-4f82-9225-df7e62e8f339_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727699483"},{"product_id":"black-rainbow-sound","title":"Black Rainbow Sound","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeeds-based Menace Beach return with their third album \u003ci\u003eBlack Rainbow Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, via Memphis Industries. New album \u003ci\u003eBlack Rainbow Sound\u003c\/i\u003e is the band's first new material since early 2017’s \u003ci\u003eLemon Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, and after a self-imposed break from tour duties, the album exhibits a profound shift in their sound, whilst still mainlining the blasts of noise, visceral power, and timeless pop songsmithery of their previous releases. Unlike the bands previous records, \u003ci\u003eBlack Rainbow Sound\u003c\/i\u003e came to life in the bands studio, where Liza Violet and Ryan Needham built dense late-night orchestrations from drum machines, synthesizers, loops and guitar noise, before being ripped apart and reimagined by the full Menace Beach cast at The Nave studio in Leeds with co-producer Matt Peel (Eagulls). Never ones to shy away from an intriguing collaboration, \u003ci\u003eBlack Rainbow Sound\u003c\/i\u003e contains songs featuring Brix Smith of The Fall, and Brix and the Extricated. On \u003ci\u003eBlack Rainbow Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, Menace Beach continue to explore their own unique aesthetic, venturing much further into a colourful world of bizzaro no-wave analogue synths and static drenched electronic euphoria, which they have been circling for some time. Lustrous, dizzying, and bursting with cacophonous vintage electronics - the sounds on \u003ci\u003eBlack Rainbow Sound\u003c\/i\u003e act as an otherworldly backdrop for the album's enigmatic lyrics to play out. Celestial conversations, night terrors, love, anti- love, good vs evil, light vs dark, friendly crows, death, depression, and teenage tongues and are all here to absorb; the more introspective topics often hidden in plain sight atop celebratory choruses, and melodic hooks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Memphis Industries","offers":[{"title":"White | LP","offer_id":50497897300299,"sku":"1038564","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50497897890123,"sku":"1038562","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50497898971467,"sku":"1038563","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/46c2a42c-47b7-4f1d-9eaa-d3ac91645c6b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727734713"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_a6099f65_thumbnail_4096_eba50ab7-1f6f-4dcf-8174-27e51279fbe4.jpg?v=1727691832","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/menace-beach.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}