Independent but stronger together.
Independent but stronger together.
Formed in Bristol, 4-piece LICE have become one of UK experimental rock’s most inventive and ambitious outliers. Their second album - ‘Third Time At The Beach’ – is a three-part epic exploring our struggle to better understand the world around them.
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+ Dinked Edition 301
+ 6th December 2024
+ AD 93
+ 140g blue vinyl *
+ Packet of sea monkeys in hand stamped envelope *
+ Printed inner sleeve *
+ Limited pressing of 300 *
* EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition
Due to manufacture delays, this release is now due early December.
Everything is always changing in ‘Third Time At The Beach’. The album shifts from lush piano balladry to crushing industrial, and from swampy avant-garde compositions to triumphant rock freakouts. Employing vocal manipulation and field recordings, as well as cutting together studio recordings and home demos, the band produces a spatially elastic, collage-like effect. The album, like the ideas being reached within it, presents a work-in-progress. Lyrically, the record employs a scattershot style to present the experience of learning (or ‘unlearning’). The listener visits ancient civilisations, the Industrial Revolution, outer space and the land of the dinosaurs: encountering mediaeval farmers, silver miners, cavemen, Napoleon and Satan.