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Beans is the garage-psych project of Matt Blach, who also drums in The Murlocs over in the Gizzard-adjacent corner of Geelong/Melbourne, Australia. Working mostly solo in a DIY garage setup, Blach stacks harmonies into psych-pop laced with surf and doo-wop. He tracked two records at once during the pandemic: the distortion-heavy, rhythm-forward Boots N Cats and its softer twin. Less Louder (2026, Fuzz Club) is that mellower counterpart, trading lysergic grooves for acoustic textures, piano and Rhodes, hazy jangle, and breezy melody across love, loneliness, and memory.
No festival history to claim here, so we will keep it honest: our connection is that we are pressing Less Louder as a Levitation Edition. That is the tie. We heard it, we wanted it on our shelf, and now it lives in the catalog on color.
Less Louder earns its name. Blach dials the fuzz down and lets the songs breathe, and the writing holds up to the quiet. Rhodes and piano do a lot of the heavy lifting, the jangle stays hazy instead of sharp, and the melodies land soft but stick. It is the sound of someone who can clearly make a loud record choosing restraint and trusting the tunes to carry it.
If we are nitpicking, the breeziness can blur a little across a full side; a couple of the mid-tempo cuts drift past before they fully announce themselves. But that is the trade for the mood, and the mood is the point. Resister and the warmer corners reward a second spin, where the harmonies and the Jesse Williams mix open up.
This is exactly the kind of patient, harmony-driven psych-pop that sounds better on wax, where the textures get room and the warmth reads. Limited to 100 on the Blueprints Tri-Color, it is a Levitation Edition we are proud to put our name on.
Recommended if you like: The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Vacant Lots, Night Beats.
