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1. pitchfork.com › reviews › albumsThe Beta Band: The Three EPs Album Review - Pitchfork

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   Sep 24, 2018 · Keen pop instincts, a good sense of space, and a penchant for self-sabotage: That’s the Beta Band, epitomized by this 20th-anniversary reissue of their earliest works.

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   Oct 7, 2005 · You may well have heard of The Beta Band, but let’s refresh your memory. They’re the group that released their first three EPs to unanimous acclaim, then made the cover of NME, only to ...

3. www.stereogum.com › 2015842 › the-beta-bandThe Beta Band's ‘Three EPs’ Turns 20 ... - Stereogum

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   Sep 28, 2018 · Over three EPs — Champion Versions, The Patty Patty Sound, and Los Amigos del Beta Bandidos — core members Steve Mason, John Maclean, and Robin Jones fused rock, folk, trip-hop, ambient, house...

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4. digmeout.substack.com › p › the-beta-band-history-ofThe Beta Band | History of the Band - by J Dziak

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   Dec 13, 2023 · The Beta Band's story began in the mid-1990s, a period marked by musical experimentation and the rise of alternative genres. Formed in Edinburgh, Scotland, the original lineup consisted of Steve Mason (vocals, guitars), Richard Greentree (bass), Robin Jones (drums), and John Maclean (keyboards, samples).

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   Sep 12, 2005 · It’s an avant-farmyard jug band jam with steel drums and possibly a few ducks, a ludicrous party. But somewhere at the centre of ‘Round The Bend’ there’s Steve Mason , sounding desolate.

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6. www.popmatters.com › beta-band-three-eps-reviewThe Beta Band’s ‘The Three E.P.’s’ Is 20 Years Old on a ...

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   Sep 21, 2018 · Most often remembered for a famous cameo in the 2000 film High Fidelity, the Beta Band’s The Three E.P.’s collected the Scottish band’s first three extended play records into one lengthy...

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   What makes Beta Band a great band?

   • In that push-and-pull—between all-out experimentation and commercial appeal, delicate songcraft and wild-eyed sonic tinkering, expanse and intimacy—the Beta Band legend was born. That essence is captured anew on a twentieth-anniversary reissue of their first three EPs.

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   Who is the Beta Band?

   • It’s time to put that right You may well have heard of The Beta Band, but let’s refresh your memory. They’re the group that released their first three EPs to unanimous acclaim, then made the cover of NME, only to famously rubbish their debut album proper on the pages inside.

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   How did the Beta Band become famous?

   • They carried themselves at once like a band who wanted to be very famous and a band who just wanted to be left the hell alone. In that push-and-pull—between all-out experimentation and commercial appeal, delicate songcraft and wild-eyed sonic tinkering, expanse and intimacy—the Beta Band legend was born.

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   How has the Beta Band changed in 20 years?

   • A lot has changed in 20 years, but the very existence of the Beta Band—four rave-damaged, dub-inflected, spacecase pop savants, briefly given the keys to the kingdom—is still enough to spin your head. “I always imagined we’d be as big as Radiohead,” Mason told The Guardian in 2004.

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   How did the Beta Band contribute to the 21st century?

   • The Beta Band helped pull rock music into the 21st century in a way that they’ve still never quite gotten the credit for. They took Britpop, hungover and strung out by the late ’90s, by the hand and led it into a wonderfully open new world.

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   What is Beta Band rap?

   • Yet what you first hear is some of the starkest music the Beta Band ever made. While “Dry The Rain” started with a warm drumbeat and slide guitar, and “The Beta Band Rap” began somewhere between a carnival and a barbershop quartet, “Squares” opens a capella and immediately you know something is different, something is off.

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   Feb 6, 2014 · The Beta Band helped pull rock music into the 21st century in a way that they’ve still never quite gotten the credit for.