Taste Test: Beams take a gloriously cathartic sip of ‘Sweet Tea’
The psych-folk band explore the past and trauma on a new song.
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Sooner or later, we must confront the past. Our sore-addled mind stems from a trauma that we may have forgotten completely. Feeling the past crumble as dust in her fingertips, Beams front-woman Anna Mernieks puts her mind to tremendously grueling work with a new song. A dusty and painstakingly evocative number, “Sweet Tea” weaves between the reeds, the thin blades cutting into her sides, as she seeks out the root of her misery. “I want to try to solve the mystery of brittle bones, brittle heart, brittle mind,” she drags her vocal brush across the canvas, one grey in hue yet still remarkable and vibrant. Country-inflected guitar work whispers softly against the clang and bang of drums, eliciting an even darker, more somber intonation across the countryside. Even in such sobering circumstances, there is hope stitched as porcelain lace on her teardrops.
“Sweet Tea” anchors the band’s new album, ‘Til the Morning Comes, expected everywhere later this year.
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