UK band, Menace Beach, will release their new album Lemon Memory on January 20th. Listen to “Maybe We’ll Drown” via Soundcloud below. The album was Written in Ibiza and recorded in Sheffield with Ross Orton (MIA, Arctic Monkeys, The Fall).

“Maybe We’ll Drown” is, for Menace Beach at least, an exercise in restraint, the fuzz and distortion turned down, a big last chorus avoided. Liza explains, “The one ‘rule’ thing we went into the album session with was to keep in mind that sometimes doing The Opposite is much more interesting”. Neatly encapsulating millennial worries in the lyric “maybe we’ll drown, maybe we’ll all drown” Liza takes the lead vocal as she does on much of “Lemon Memory”. Indeed, if debut LP Ratworld was Ryan’s record, “Lemon Memory” is very much a Liza record. Ryan explains “Liza got that look in the eye and a head-down-blinkers-on thing, and only a moron would try and get in the way of that. It’s all about keeping those ideas in their purest form and diluting as little as possible.”

“LEMON MEMORY” TRACKLISTING:

Give Blood

Maybe We’ll Drown

Sentimental

Lemon Memory

Can’t Get a Haircut

Darlatoid

Suck it Out

Owl

Watch Me Boil

Hexbreaker II

Menace Beach tour dates

05 Oct, Queen of Hoxton, London

31 Jan, Sheffield, The Picture House

01 Feb, Leicester, The Cookie

02 Feb, Birmingham, Hare & Hounds

03 Feb, Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach

04 Feb, Southampton, The Joiners

06 Feb, Oxford, Bullingdon Arms

07 Feb, Brighton, The Hope & Ruin

08 Feb, London, Moth Club

09 Feb, Cambridge, The Portland Arms

10 Feb, Liverpool, The Magnet

11 Feb, Manchester, Deaf Institute

14 Feb, Glasgow, Broadcast

15 Feb, Edinburgh, Sneaky Pete’s

16 Feb, Newcastle, The Cluny

17 Feb, Leeds, Brudenell Social Club