Beta Voids Drop Debut EP “Scrape It Off”

Somewhere between the flailing limbs of early LA Hardcore and the sax-stabbed chaos of No Wave, Astoria, OR’s Beta Voids are busy making noise that doesn’t care what you think. Their debut EP, Scrape It Off, sounds like a busted tape deck loaded with Redd Kross riffs, Contortions paranoia, and enough caffeine to keep a circle pit going until dawn. It’s the kind of record that smells faintly of beer, hairspray, and old xerox ink, a perfect relic of a scene that never really died, just relocated to a damp coastal basement. Scrape It Off is now available as a name your price download via Bandcamp and on 10″ vinyl through Hovercraft Records.

Across the Scrape It Off EP, Mandy Grant and Carrie Beveridge front the storm with twin-voiced intensity, a volley of shrieks, sneers, and sly melodic hooks that recall Poly Styrene and Penelope Houston with the voltage cranked dangerously high. Every track is its own small riot, a sweaty mix of jagged guitars, sax chaos, and drums that sound like they were recorded in the back of a van doing eighty down a hill. The whole record feels like a scene ripped from Suburbia: grainy, half-lit, and alive with that doomed sense of teenage immortality.