Slowdive, Flaming Lips, The Soft Cavalry and Casket Girls have joined forces for an album under a new band name, Beachy Head.Beachy Head comprises Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell and Christian Savill, Flaming Lips drummer Matt Duckworth, Ryan Graveface (Casket Girls, Dreamend) and Steve Clarke (The Soft Cavalry).
The group’s self-titled debut album will be released on April 30 through Graveface’s eponymous record label.The first single, ‘Destroy Us’, a lo-fi, ethereal track, is out now through Bandcamp.
Listen to it below:Beachy Head’s name is derived from a chalk cliff in Sussex. As the band notes, “it’s one of Britain’s most popular beauty spots but also a notorious suicide spot.”According to the liner notes on Bandcamp, the album’s creation.
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