Beezus
- Breakfast
Was Weird
Artist:
Beezus
Title: Breakfast was Weird
Catalog#: Mud-CD-010
Price: $7.50  |
Tracks
on this CD: |
| One
Time Too Many |
|
Hell's
Half Acre |
| Repulsion |
|
Ghostfuck |
| Wombat |
|
Jesus
Boys |
| 60
Hours |
|
Too
Bad |
| Sylvie |
|
U.A.F.M. |
| Kangaroo |
|
Carol
Thomas Neely |
| Road
Outta Normal |
|
In
Your Jeans |
| Slip |
|
Sleepwalk |
|
|
other
releases by Beezus
Beezus are three
girls from Champaign who have been together for about two
years. Beezus can be reasonably classified with Cub, Scrawl,
Barbara Manning, and Tuscadero when searching for a reference
point for their sound. Their songs are personal, emotive,
and totally catchy.
From
crafty pop to haunting dirge to fuzzy, driving rock,
the sixteen songs
on Breakfast was Weird cover a nice range of song styles
while still sounding cohesive. The lyrics on Breakfast
was Weird are wonderful. Mostly songs about boys & girls
and girls & girls - often times surprisingly frank
(without being dumb).
The disc was
recorded by Brendan Gamble from Moon Seven Times and Lanterna.
"Musically,
there's nothing too fancy here, just a basic jangle-trio
sound that happens to be endearingly unsheened... What
gives the songs the most distinction is the lyrics with
keen wit and a sixth sense for rhyme... sticky lyrics that
stay in your head all day." -Puncture
"Beezus
takes the best elements of Scrawl and Tsunami, and mix
them to wonderful effect... you are in pop bliss as the
two female vocals envelope you in harmonies, as the instruments
delicately pass you by..." -Northwestern University's
WNUR 'zine |
