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
+ 20th September 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
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.