★★★★★
The sophomore LP from Beach Fossils directly challenges the lo-fi, woozy sound of their eponymous 2010 debut, with Dustin Payseur looking to capture the expanded live sound of the Brooklyn quartet with production from the Men's Ben Greenberg.
- www.austinchronicle.com
2013-11-07
★★★★★
In the ever-expanding indie rock universe, Dustin Payseur - the pallid, rumple-haired creative force behind Brooklyn's Beach Fossils - has blown up, grown up, 'Crashed Out', and cashed in. He's drafted bandmates, ditched bandmates, slicked-up bedsit pop, and scorch-earthed countless stages. Yet throughout four years of artistic delights and defeats, Payseur's allegiance to an aesthetic of clean lines and simple shapes has never wavered...
- thequietus.com
2013-04-15
★★★★★
Beach Fossils Clash the TruthBy Cam LindsayDustin Payseur has luck on his side. Just hours before Hurricane Sandy ravaged NYC, the Beach Fossils frontman finished his second album in a studio that was eventually destroyed. This was fresh off guitarist Zachary Cole Smith and bassist John Pena leaving to pursue their projects: DIIV and Heavenly Beat, respectively. Astonishingly, without those talents, Payseur is at his strongest, as Clash the Truth is easily the best thing he's done so far...
- exclaim.ca
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Dusted ReviewsArtist: Beach Fossils Album: Clash The Truth Label: Captured Tracks Review date: Feb. 20, 2013
Perusing the blogosphere, it becomes clear how consistently the world of us swivel-chair musicologists have gotten Beach Fossils wrong, and I whisper this having never offered the band more than a passing acquaintance. For starters, I should atone for lazily tossing it into a pile of Beach/Bear/Vampires in the great band name yawn of the late-noughts...
- www.dustedmagazine.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Traditionally, punk has utilized aggression to communicate messages of anxiety through apocalyptic bass and scuffed guitarlines. Borrowing from the ghosts of disillusioned punk rockers before him, Beach Fossils' Dustin Payseur strays from the syrupy reverb typically dominating Beach Fossils' breezy aesthetic, trading it in for torrential guitars and thrashing drums on his band's restless sophomore release, Clash the Truth ...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-04-01
★★★★★
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"Shallow""Clash The Truth"
On the second full album from Beach Fossils, Clash the Truth, frontman Dustin Payseur announces on the title track, "Life can be so vicious/And we can't even appreciate its purities." This sets the stage for the entire album; it's a strange melancholic dichotomy of despair and hope...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Clash The Truth is an album that was destined to be completed no matter what obstacles stood in the way. So when Hurricane Sandy flooded and literally destroyed parts of the Python Patrol studio building where Beach Fossils were busily recording their second LP, all of their resolves were tested.
Having started life as a solo project for singer, songwriter and all round musician Dustin Payseur, Beach Fossils have developed into a fully-fledged band...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
As demonstrated by the battle cry/thesis statement "Generational Synthetic," Beach Fossils' second full-length Clash the Truth is a call to arms. Under a cover of guitars that wouldn't sound out of place on albums by Wild Nothing or former bandmate DIIV, frontman Dustin Payseur bemoans apathy, coining the derogatory term "generation most pathetic." Thankfully, his desire to preach never impedes the album's listenability. Let's address the two dreaded words: dream pop...
- filtermagazine.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
The post-punk revival may well be past its expiration point by now, but don't tell that to Beach Fossils, whose second album Clash the Truth regards the stark and reverb-laden early '80s output of Factory Records and the Cure as still-fertile models of emulation. The date-stamped ghostly sparseness of the record is its most immediately distinguishing feature--and a potential handicap...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-04-01
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