Menace Beach – Super Transporterreum EP

Album Review by Katie Hawthorne | 21 Sep 2015
Album title: Super Transporterreum
Artist: Menace Beach
Label: Memphis
Release date: 2 October

No idea what a Super Transporterreum is, but it sounds great. Loud Leeds gang Menace Beach are having a prolific year, with this EP following up on their January released full-length debut Ratworld. The band’s ensemble cast includes members of Sky Larkin and Hookworms (and has seen the handiwork of Pulled Apart by Horses), which goes some way to earn Menace Beach the possibly dubious title of Leeds’ most DIY super-group.

Picking a strong team won’t always result in a great album (hi Them Crooked Vultures, and, actually, most “super” groups in history) but in this case it’s a resounding victory. A concise five tracks prove a steely reminder that sounding this chilled doesn’t come easy; tight fisted fuzzed-out lo fi this is, but straight up slacker rock it isn’t.

A Super Transporterreum, it transpires, is crunching indie rock with a shade of sci-fi that transports you by merit of a million super punchy hooks. It also works to clear your ears and unblock the sinuses – a Super Transporterreum feels definitively good for your body and soul, nosier but far more effective than your average mug of lemsip. 

Playing The Deaf Institute, Manchester on 25 Sep; Liverpool Pool Intentional Psych Fest on 26 Sep and Brudenell Social Club, Leeds on 27 Sep http://menacebeach.co.uk