Beans are back! Announcing new album 'Less Louder' out Sep 11th and share lead single/video 'Resister'

Beans are back! The Geelong / Melbourne garage-psych band led by Matt Blach of The Murlocs today announce their new album ‘Less Louder’ and share the lead single ‘Resister’ – Pre-order the Fuzz Club / Sound Merch exclusive splatter vinyl here

Written and recorded around the same time as its predecessor, 2024’s 'Boots N Cats', ‘Less Louder’ is that album’s more mellow and laid-back counterpart. Where the first of the two records that Blach set to work on in his DIY garage studio over the pandemic was a drum-driven set of rhythmic garage-psych grooves, 'Less Louder' is a blissed-out, harmony-driven record firmly in the “Sunday Afternoon” category, as Blach puts it. All breezy, deeply-infectious melody and hazy jangle, it foregrounds softer, more acoustic production, more piano and Rhodes – dialling down the distorted lysergic grooves you might expect.

"Although Less Louder was recorded around the same time as Boots N Cats, as the title intentionally describes, it's a lot more laid-back in comparison. We're pleased to share some different paths and a new intimacy so to speak. There's a change in feel to these songs, with more mellow tones. Lyrically, the songs are based around the time they were written. Some about love, some about loneliness, some about memories, some about sleeping or hiding away."

Left undisturbed for a few years, the second and final set of Beans recordings from that era is finally seeing the light of day now, landing mixed by Jesse Williams and mastered by John Lee. 'Less Louder' is out in full Sep 11th 2026 on Fuzz Club and available to pre-order now on limited edition 180g splatter vinyl (hand-numbered /500) exclusive to the Fuzz Club UK/US/AUS stores and Membership, tri-colour swirl vinyl exclusive to @levitation and standard ultra clear wax everywhere else.