Keeping to their promise of slowly squeezing out short releases over the course of 2011, Sunbeam Rd. have followed up last months Circular Breathing with Basements & Passed Lives. "Basements" fills the first side with brooding vocals and a delicate guitar melody weaving its way through a sea of drone. Contrasting a bit, "Passed Lives" snaps out of the pensive state of the preceding song with a driving bass line and danceable beat. All in all both tracks, as well as "Circular Breathing," are definitely worth a listen and are available for free on Sunbeam Rd.’s Bandcamp page. They will also be playing a show this Wednesday at the Hemlock with Spiro Agnew and Red Blue Yellow. Check them out.
-Ada Lann