Scary Beard

ALT/ INDIE ROCK
Artist: Scary Beard
Album: Scary Beard
Tracks: "Rats (What I Can See)," "Weeds Hold the Whole Thing Up"
Street Date: January 5, 2010
Label: Nine Mile Records

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If Bon Iver, Colin Meloy, and Isaac Brock could ever have a love child, he would literally sound like Scary Beard's Mike Wyzik - huskily mellow with a faint lisp.

Scary Beard, based in Northampton, Massachusetts, is a side project for many artists on Nine Mile Records to release new material in between their full-length albums. Wyzik often collaborates with Matt Herbert and Bob Hennessy of Haunt, Thane Thompson of the Figments, Matt Cullen of the Humming Field, Dave Houghton of Fancy Trash, Chris Couchon, Mark Schwaber, and Melissa Nelson.
















In "Rats (What I Can See)," Scary Beard layers upbeat lyrics, refrains, and mini guitar riffs upon a bed of endearing rhythms and beats. It's adorable to the point where we're wondering how this track didn't end up in (500) Days of Summer. Maybe it's the whole befriending rats thing.

In other tracks the band explores their musical range and delves into a "more rock, less pop" sort of sound - giving us an attractive Jelly Bean-like assortment of musical nuances in their songs. Result: awesomeness!

Visit Scary Beard's MySpace or Facebook to hear their tracks!