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'With blistering energy and relentless swagger the Real Beavers set off seeking new territories and what a terrain they find there'
THE REAL BEAVERS
Genre: Rock and Roll/Alt. Rock/Pop
Artwork by The Idiot Society ©2020
Short Biog
Formed in Tomar, Portugal in 2014 by the meeting of singer-songwriter Bill Rivers, guitarist Hugo Minds, bassist João Faria and Drummer Flávio Filipe, The Real Beavers released their debut album online in 2017 and a live album in 2018. They were invited to perform at the Por Estas Bandas Festival, Cem Soldos in 2015 and 2019 and in June 2019 they won The Battle of The Bands Modern Music Contest in Espinho. They see themselves primarily as a Rock and Roll Band but with elements of other styles of music to give their songs variety and progression.
Their new EP 'Watch it Burn' was released on June 29th
Influences: Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Doors
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NEW EP JUNE 29 2020
Listen to our new EP 'Watch It Burn' here
'Every one of these six titles has a different vibe and feel, showing shades of early period Roxy (Psycho World), Doors (Watch It Burn) and the totally left field Kinks/Brecht inspired Will It Happen Today, complete with trumpets and choral crescendo. A wonderfully well produced collection of songs.'
Glenn Tranter (Nikki Sudden/Dave Kusworth & the Jacobites).
‘A band from Portugal playing music that would have gone down well if blasted from a hifi player in 60's Carnaby Street. Retro goodness for the soul.' –
John Clay (Chemically Sinister, Hermitage Works Studio)
'With blistering energy and relentless swagger The Real Beavers set off seeking new territories and what a terrain they find there.'
Simon Hayward (Poet/Essayist)
LIVE
Genre: Rock and Roll/Alt. Rock/Pop
THE REAL BEAVERS
The Devil's Loose - The Real Beavers - From Live recording Session 3/11/2019
THE REAL BEAVERS
Genre: Rock and Roll/Alt. Rock/Pop
PRESS/
REVIEWS
INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES
'Bill Rivers muses upon the world’s reawakening to the issues of racial tension via the re-evaluation of his band’s latest EP,’ Watch It Burn’ '
By John Clay for Public Pressure
Article here
John Clay catches up with The Real Beaver's
Bill Rivers for Joyzine once more to ask him about the intention behind his writing and the essential meaning of the songs on 'Watch It Burn'
Interview here
The Real Beaver's Bill Rivers speaks to John Clay for Joyzine about creativity in lockdown, finding a stage persona and The Devil ahead of the release of the bands new EP 'Watch It Burn'
Interview here.
WATCH IT BURN (EP) - Review by Simon Hayward
On 29th June ‘Watch it Burn’, the new Real Beavers EP, will finally land on all good music platforms. With blistering energy and relentless swagger the Real Beavers set off seeking new territories and what a terrain they find there! A terrain built of intricate textures; lush guitar lines ooze ecstasy, while pounding drums pulse vitality and everything underpinned by this cool, solid bass groove, gluing everything together. Lyrics too, delivered in rich baritone, explore every interior landscape, unafraid to search, to yearn, to give each emotion articulation and expression.
The Real Beavers are clearly well versed in great music too- listeners will spot shadows of The Doors here, traces of The Pretty Things there, a shimmer of Kurt Weill and an echo of post punk and power pop. You may even spot the influence of Morricone and John Barry. In fact there is a real cinematic quality to the record as a whole; in the way that you find yourself utterly absorbed in its various formulas then suddenly find yourself shaken from your comfort by a plot twist. From the tiny micro-pause just before the final guitar solo on ‘Psycho World’ through to the sudden appearance of an ethereal choir on ‘Will It Happen Today?’ The Real Beavers always know exactly when and how to spring their listeners out of the familiar. This is where the true genius lies in the Real Beavers` output- their willingness and ability to consistently surprise their listeners with little shifts and subtle changes.
So go out, buy the record, immerse yourself in its intricacies. Immerse yourself in its sonic infusion, revel in the way the record contrasts dark and light, moves between line and colour, introspection and frivolity. It is quite simply breathtaking!'
(Simon Hayward is a writer from the UK. He has collaborated as a lyricist for Polish composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer Ela Orleans and as a poet with Photographer Chris Collins for the book ‘My Car is a Rolls Royce').
Photograph by Tita Ladeira©2019
The Real Beavers - Review (Debut Album) by Stuart Turnbull (Global Music Club)
There's this rather interesting and intriguing set of songs lingering on my PC... you know, in that sort of "come hear me out" kind of way? Always thinking that I'll get around to that... in just a few hours. Well.. here we are at last.
I'm expecting something akin to normal from The Real Beavers (don't you just love that name?).. and their self-entitled album: The Real Beavers. 11 tracks of something else...actually not normality at all.
As I take each in turn I'm getting stranded on that far away island of old memories... wanting to be rescued and comforted by those safe feelings of musical recognition.... I'm not quite sure where l am or just where I've been. Okay, Okay.... it's like this.. strands of 60s garage punkiness are whipped up with huge dollops of Dire Straits... seemingly endless folds and revolts against this backstop of classic English art rock. Thrown completely on any way to further describe these compositions. It's kind of exciting, new and yet strangely subtle.. but: ah, there you go... changes again
Fearful of missing something I find myself attached to each track and listening with increasing intent. These songs are well crafted, asking you to suspend conformity and surrender to the idea that this is all coming at you from a new direction. Well it really does too.. but dragging some well managed and common themes of the genre.... I'm thinking that this is confusion but no... it's all really rather clever and nice.
Cozy Chaos is the title of one of the songs here... how so very appropriate. The jingle jangle of guitars that echo from 1967.... The sound of The Deviants or early Pink Fairies. One might suggest even a drop of Pink Floyd in there too.
You might draw some conclusion of a band that has somewhat of an identity crisis.. but you'd be so wrong. There's a well woven blanket of colour and texture... very very recognisable.. and embroidered with beautiful little psychedelic stabs around the hem.
Psycho World is once more appropriately entitled and pulls to a close this album. Not a brusk or noisy end piece but more of the same intrigue. A soft good bye and thanks for being here.
The Real Beavers are certainly real, certainly impromptu in their performance herein and quite pathological in their dissection of a series of genres... They've steered close to the wind and more than once fooled me into an expectation of something else.... another direction.
Clever boys! Shall we look deeper? Investigate further? Indeed we must!
Debut Album, Live Album and Latest EP available here
