New Half Mile Beach Club: “Chasing The First High”

Half Mile Beach Club have a new album out this week, but it isn’t quite a new album. Be Built, Then Lost serves as an intro to the outfit’s blurred take on beach tunes for a larger audience, and that partially involves a lot of familiar cuts — including many from last year’s lovely indie release Hasta La Vista — popping back up (or in the case of “Yankee,” being re-recorded while still maintaining the alien-visiting-Zushi vibe it first conjured up). Still, they also have plenty of new tunes, including the psych-smudged “Chasing The First High.” Imagine if the jammy experiments on Suchmos’ last album actually let themselves get truly spiked, with samples and vocal filters aplenty to contribute to the spaced-out mood. Most importantly, it constantly teeters towards collapse — that janky organ! — but holds together. Listen above.