Beach Fossils are on their way to SXSW, with a new LP in the works, and a new seven-inch just dished out on Captured Tracks. We've already talked about "Shallow," the slightly "meatier" A-side, now here's "Lessons.""Lessons" is classic Beach Fossils. Which means: classic jangle. As the song rattles along at a twee clip with a trebly tone, Payseur and Dive's Zachary Cole Smith chime away like the children-of-Johnny-Marr they are, summoning sentimental summers filled with sad-eyed longing and lingering sadness.
Where all Beach Fossils songs sound, to me, incredibly sad, this one literally aches with existential angst. "We can only try to stay alive/what are you do at 25?" Payseur carols, the idleness of the 20-something days shadowed by the lingering specter of mortality. And, the guitar jangles on unto eternity. Or, at least, to two-and-a-half minutes.
Beach Fossils, "Lessons"
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