Beta Band (The) - The Three EPs (2025 Repress) *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 11th July 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

I discovered the Beta Band, like I discovered a lot of great music, basically through eventually surrendering to
the enthused urgings of a mate who was cooler than me. He continually evangelized about the EP’s. I was
lost to the concert hall and firmly ensconced on  the dancefloor by then and highly resistant, but quite taken
by the idea that a band would bring out extended plays rather than singles. When I did check them out, I was
instantly smitten by their originality and power. 
 
The band, therefore, were pivotal for me in terms of my own musical journey, in that they represented a
gateway back into indie guitar  music, which I’d basically given up since becoming obsessed with rave and
acid house. 
 
The Beta Band were definitely a band for the cool cognoscenti- like my buddy- the ones you make a bit of a
tit of yourself trying to convert quite straight boring people to. 
 
The emotions they induced were a kind of throwback to school days when you were very pompous and
prescriptive about what you liked, and derisive towards non believers. It’s a testimony to the power of the
music that they could take me to the raw state of the younger man. 

 
I took it personally that they didn’t hit the mainstream commercial base. At least two of the three albums
they made deserved quadruple platinum status. Hot Shots II and Heroes to Zeros are permanently lodged
very high in my top one hundred albums of all time.
 
So, the return of the Beta Band has me moving into the same mode of immature, adolescent anticipation.
Everyone should have the Beta Band albums and EP’s in their collection. It still kind of annoys me - in fact it
bugs the shit out of me - that most of them don’t. 
 
And that really is something. 
TRACKLISTING - DOUBLE VINYL.
Exclusive 2025 repress – Double Heavyweight black LP , printed inners
A 1 Dry The Rain
A 2 I Know
A 3 B + A
B 1 Dogs Got a Bone
B 2 Inner Meet Me
B 3 The House Song
C 1 The Monolith
C 2 She's the One
D 1 Push It Out
D 2 It's Over
D 3 Dr. Baker
D 4 Needles In My Eyes

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