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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Excuses: The Life and Times of Beau Hollingsworth EP

The Life and Times of Beau Hollingsworth E.P Cover Art

The Life and Times of Beau Hollingsworth is the debut EP from Irish post-punk band The Excuses. Just being an Irish rock band is trremendous pressure, as no country has a richer rock heritage to live up to. The Excuses take this in stride and deliver five tracks of street laden post-punk goodness. The tracks are edgy, have a minimalist feel, with a compelling vocal stylings and a wonderful bass out front mix. The only nitpicky flaw is using a white X on a black background for the cover. At this point, that is totally associated with the band XX and something original should be on their EP cover, but I digress. Bottom line on The Life and Times is that this is a very good debut and shows much promise for the future from this band. Stream and download The Life and Times of Beau Hollingsworth for free at the link below.