Beacon Hill, by Andy Benson

Beacon Hill

by Andy Benson

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$3 USD or more

1.	Dreams Of Insomnia (acoustic) 04:07	buy track
2.	Landing Stem (acoustic) 04:04	buy track
3.	The Cold (acoustic) 05:11	buy track
4.	Love Is Gonna Take Us Somewhere (more acoustic version) 03:58	buy track
5.	Wink Newt Blues (original studio version) 02:46	buy track

about

This is the original ARB album, done in the studio with all acoustic guitars and a total lack of plugging stuff in. Later on, Mr. Bandy would overdub his own electric nonsense over it and turn it into a weird version of what it once was. These versions can be found while poking around cyberspace. I was displeased my entire life over this mishap. These songs were unearthed by a friend who just so happened to have a copy of the old version of the CD. A real lost gem, in a sense. Even though these songs are exceptionally embarrassing, youthful attempts at songwriting and music in general, they still get a place in the Nerve Salad boneyard. If nothing else but to serve a nostalgic landscape to peer into from time to time... I mean... I wrote pretty much all of these when I was 16 years old, and recorded them only a mere few years later... that's got to count for something....

(Thanks, Sarah, for finding this CD and giving me some files to kick around)

credits

released May 5, 1998

Andy Benson - All vocals, guitars, basses, keys, and some drums
Jimmy Berg - Drums
Luke Bandy - All Barking Of Orders and doing a few odds and ends sometimes
Andy Steil - Some noodling with knobs, and twiddlings with noodles.
Stephen David Johnson - Lead vox on Love Is Gonna Take Us Somewhere

license

about

Nerve Salad Records Dubuque, Iowa

Releasing anything we feel like. Anything that's good. Anything that goes quietly, but shouldn't. A vehicle for frustrated local acts. A sounding board for bands elsewhere. Moving ever so slightly. Ever so slowly. Limited CDs & Cassettes released, maybe once a year.. maybe never again...
nervesalad.blogspot.com ... more

Blogger

contact / help

Contact Nerve Salad Records

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Beacon Hill, you may also like:

AVVOLGERE
by True Widow

The video for "Theurgist," from True Widow's forthcoming "Avvolgere," is as prismatic & hypnotic as the song it accompanies. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 15, 2016
go to album
Our Birth is but a Sleep and a Forgetting
by It’s Not Night: It’s Space

Infectious sludge finally arrives after four years of furtive jamming, out on Small Stone Recordings. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 23, 2016
go to album
Lords of Data
by ASTRAL HAND

Sustained by seismic psych riffs, proggy shifts, and vivid sci-fi storytelling, these Milwaukee cosmonauts command respect. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 29, 2023
go to album
Occult New Age
by Book of Wyrms

A hard rock epic for the ages from the Richmond outfit, anchored in prog-inflected riffs, occult themes, strong vocal performances. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2021
go to album
Freedom of the Press
by Various Artists

This compilation showcasing the new sound of folk, psych, and Americana benefits the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 9, 2018
go to album
The Dust Has Come To Stay
by Junk Drawer

This Belfast group makes art-rock with an effortlessly melodic twist. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 17, 2022
go to album
Darkest Light
by Shana Falana

On her latest LP, Shana Falana keeps her voice front and center. Bandcamp Album of the Day Nov 4, 2019
go to album