Over the past year or so Sex Beet have landed on the face of the underground alternative music scene and achieved a somewhat cult status. Their songs provide a variety of sounds and styles a notably raucous punk rock attitude.
Having a selection of songs to their name, including cover versions of The Beach Boys’ “I Get Around” and Sonic Youth’s “Dirty Boots”, indeed, the band absolutely desecrate both tracks, yet the latter is absolutely incredible. Fair enough, it’s extremely different to the original recording, understandably causing controversy with Sonic Youth fans, yet on the other hand Sex Beet have stamped their mark all over it, thus making it their own, sped up with an overpowering punk rock guitar line that soars above Luke Lust’s typical gritty vocals.
Other tracks include “Sugar Water,” a short, sharp injection of extensive guitar fuzz alongside reverbed morose vocals, with a pleasant 1980’s videogame sounding verse synth hook. A Psychobilly element is also apparent within the band’s music, taking “Scarecrow,” for instance, putting across a stuttering guitar line reminiscent of The Cramps, accompanied by a synthesizer fit for a circus or fun fair. Again, The Cramps influence is apparent throughout “I’m In Love With You,” with an additional memorandum of The Ramones, if they lived in East London and formed in the 21st Century.
Not to forget, perhaps the best known and loved Sex Beet tracks; “She Don’t Surf” and “Nice Hair, Nice Titties.” The former was released as a 7” single, furnished with typical gritty vocals, drained out by the surf punk guitar, suspiciously similar to The Surfaris’ “Wipeout.” Whereas the latter similarly abides to the surf punk vibe but includes a surprisingly exciting organ scattered into the instrumentation.
Overall, Sex Beet are a fantastic new band, evidently not in the commercial-chart topping-X Factor-disposable pop sense that seems to be brainwashing the masses of the UK, but in the sense of updating the music that made Britain a musical institute and resisting the temptation to take themselves seriously.
For Fans Of: Wavves, The Cramps.
Listen To: “She Don't Surf,” “Alone,” "I'm In Love With You."
Jonathan Hatchman.
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