A Sense of Urgency
Beati Paoli
2008 by, Andy “Danger” Ruble
Des Moines Band, Beati Paoli (pronounced BEE-ah-TEE POW-lee), don’t distinguish themselves by making stricktly pop rock, noise rock, or acid rock. Nor do they specifically make indie rock, art rock, or post punk rock. Beati Paoli manage to incorporate all of these styles of rock and roll, and probably a few not mentioned here, in the groups first full-length album, 2008’s “A Sense of Urgency”. Beati Paoli aren’t suffering from an identity crisis, however, they just seem to prefer their music this way. The crazy thing is that it works to a point of near perfection! The album is a cleverly woven listening experience to say the least.
“A Sense of Urgency” (track 2) is a good overall song to get the vibe of the album from a pop perspective. The song features some serious vintage sounding fuzz, and some great sing along style lyrics. For a more experimental indie feel of the band, “You are my Megalodon” (track 9) is a surefire winner with some stealthy and smart vocal work, a lengthy wavy-sounding intro, and a mishmash , noisy, outro.
In fact, “A Sense of Urgency” lives up to the albums title in as much as at times the music seems on the verge of complete musical meltdown. Portions of “Girl Friday”, “Vulgarity Drifting Diary” (track 5), and “You are my Megalodon” are good examples of this. However, listening to the way the band layers their sound and manages the possible perceived disorder, this meltdown is indeed a Beati Paoli controlled blast. The group manage to balance the tight wire act of musical experimentation and yet still retain the bands melodic sound. After a few listens of “A Sense of Urgency”, this chaos begins to look more and more orderly. What would be truly be chaotic were to be if Beati Paoli were to make strictly cookie-cutter pop songs, denying the listeners their abilities with the sound they display on this album!
You’ll enjoy “A Sense of Urgency” if you like:
the Strokes, the Killers, the Clash, Weezer, Radiohead, Beck, the Cure, the Pixies
“A Sense of Urgency” was produced by Beati Paoli, recorded at Smoking Guns Studio in Des Moines, and released the Beati Paolis newly launched label “the Noising Machine”. Beati Paoli are Gregory Goode, Ryan C. Meier, Scott O’Gara, and Cecil Skrdlant. The band has been together since 2005 and have toured the United States extensively.
now go listen to it. you can stream all the songs on any of these sites:
you can find TOO MANY Beati Paoli photos on there. my favorite album is the flyers and posters album. go look at it. plus there are a ton of tour pictures. some of which are amusing. some of which are not.
the snocap store doesn’t seem to be working at the moment, so the song hasn’t been uploaded there yet, but DON’T WORRY, we’ll upload it as soon as we can.
and in other, possibly more important, news…
Beati Paoli cd release shows! the line ups are amazing. great bands. friday, september 5th @ the vaudeville mews!
i just uploaded ANOTHER new song from Beati Paoli’s upcoming release, “A Sense Of Urgency”. (this full length album will be available on SEPTEMBER 5TH. there will be two KILLER shows that day at the vaudeville mews. come hang out.) after this, there will only be one more song to upload before you can hear every song from the album FOR FREE online.
if you would like to purchase these songs, YOU’RE IN LUCK, the Beati Paoli snocap store is now up and running! we aren’t allowed to embed things on wordpress, but you can find it on our myspace page, Beati Paoli’s myspace page, our website, and Beati Paoli’s website. You can purchase digital downloads of these new songs before the album comes out, plus you can get all the tracks from the “Penny Dreadful” ep and other unreleased songs.
the official release for “A Sense Of Urgency” is September 5th. there will be TWO cd release shows that day. we’ll let you know more details soon!
make sure to check back often. we’ll continue uploading new songs up until the cd release show.
last wednesday we went to omaha and got the upcoming Beati Paoli album, “A Sense Of Urgency”, mastered. Doug Van Sloun did a very good job, and we recommend him for all your mastering needs.
the proposed release for this album is the first or second week of september, but since we have great sounding copies of all the songs RIGHT NOW, we’re going to upload a new song or two every week, so you can get a good idea of what the full album is going to be.
the first song we’ve uploaded is “You Are My Megalodon”. track 9. it takes about 20 seconds to get going, but it’s worth the wait. i promise.
ALSO… the Beati Paoli snocap store should be up and running in the next couple of days, and you can download this song, as well as all the songs off the “Penny Dreadful” ep AND the 2 remixes, for the standard 99 cents per song. (we will have most of these songs available for free download as well. shhhhhh.)
hope you enjoy the new music!
“You Are My Megalodon” from the upcoming album “A Sense Of Urgency”
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