Sea Urchin Drop Epic Closer “I Beefed It (On My Motorbike)” From Upcoming “Destroy!” Album

Sea Urchin have announced their debut album, Destroy!, will be released on March 29th via Ba Da Bing Records, the album was created straight from leader Matt Strickland‘s painful, awful break up, and was co-produced by Katie Von Schleicher. Destroy! embodies the agony, rage, love and tragedy of love gone sour. It took rock and roll’s toolbox for Strickland to work out his feelings with Sea Urchin‘s operatic rock drama that incorporates ’50’s style garage punk, hardcore punk, pop punk, frogwave and maybe even sad punk, as the original goal was to have sad in every song title.

Strickland, known for his videos for Katie Von Schleicher and Market, assembled an all-star team to back him up. Among the players are Katie Von Schleicher adding vocals and piano, Nick Jost (Baroness) on bass, Julian Fader (Ava Luna) on drums and Nate Mendelsohn (Market) on saxophone. I Beefed It (On My Motorbike) is the epic closer to the album, it earns its long length. What would you cut?? The sax solo? No way!

“What are we supposed to do? Live in a world with no more Jim Steinman/Meat Loaf songs? You want to live in that world? This one is my opus, a classic tale of forbidden love. The Romeo and Juliet for our generation. I feel like my entire life was leading to this song. It has everything I love. Maximalism. A little Springsteen. A little E Street Band. A protagonist that hushes his girlfriend on his deathbed. Dead Teenagers. I tried to commit as hard as I could to the silliest idea I’ve ever had. I told Baroness’s Nick Jost (bass) and Ava Luna’s Julian Fader (drums) that there was no fill that was too much. There was absolutely nothing they could do to be “over the top.” Sheena is my friend from work and has no musical aspirations, but she’s a karaoke all-star and I asked her to sing on the song. I’m 100% sure Clarence Clemons heard Nate’s sax solo from heaven and wept a tear of pride.” (Matt Strickland)