7.7
Avg Score
7
Opinions
#5,920
All Time
12
Tracks
“Declan McKenna finds a new creative identity on his third record, What Happened To The Beach?”
““I got a boring apartment, and all of the drugs / I’m fucking dangerous,” Declan McKenna sings on his third album, and you can well believe him – few recent major-label albums have sounded this authentically psychedelic. The 25-year-old Brit broke through in 2015 with debut single Brazil – which had a second flush of TikTok’d fame in 2022 – and he scaled up to maximalist glam on second album Zero”
“An English artist fleeing London for LA, eschewing the late winter drizzle for golden sands and emerging with a sun-dappled record is no novel concept. Yet for a now 24-year-old Declan McKenna, this stateside period coincides with an era of personal growth and maturity. On his third album ‘What Happened To The Beach?’, he debuts a newfound penchant for looking inward for lyrical inspiration, rathe”
“The English glam-rock singer-songwriter’s third album explores a new sound, the pressures of young success and the ebbs and flows of creativity.”
