from Beliefs "Self Titled" debut March 5th 2013
via Hand Drawn Dracula Records, Manimal Vinyl, No Pain In Pop
http://handdrawndracula.com / http://manimalvinyl.com / http://nopaininpop.com
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Iron Streams

Waiting For The World To End

She Comes Alive

Lilly

Mitte

Dead Water

Seven years and two well-regarded LPs on from the band’s initial formation during a fit of shared affection between co-founders Jesse Crowe and Josh Korody for the swirling overdrive of ’80s-into-’90s noise-pop, Beliefs is poised to explode most of the … well … beliefs you might already harbour about Beliefs with a third album that completely deconstructs, remakes and remodels its self-conscious “shoegazer” beginnings in pursuit of an unforgiving, uncompromising and now thoroughly unknowable next phase.

Habitat was finished in a grand total of 16 days, with Korody serving as producer and engineer, studio multi-tasker, Leon Taheny (Austra, Death From Above 1979, Owen Pallett) sitting in as drummer, and Holy Fuck’s Graham Walsh giving the whole affair the same sort of bristlingly immediate final mixdown he’s brought to recent albums by Preoccupations, Alvvays and METZ.

Beliefs previous albums; 2013’s self-titled debut and 2015’s more poised Leaper - which lent a satisfying, Swervedriver-worthy visceral punch to the layered, loopy loveliness of My Bloody Valentine and Yo La Tengo - met with considerable acclaim and a brewing word-of-mouth reputation on both sides of the Atlantic. 

Beliefs most recent set at The Great Escape was called "a compelling concoction of cataclysmically combustive yet cleverly nuanced noise that could just as easily play a supporting role on the next Oathbreaker tour as it could a headline run by Interpol," by The Quietus.

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