Round the Bend
A country-rock ramble from the debut album, about a disappointing night.
The Beta Band, from The Beta Band (1999)
- Released
- 1999
- Length
- 4:56
- Album
- The Beta Band
The fourth track on The Beta Band is a country-rock ramble. Mason's lyric is an internal monologue about a disappointing night, mixing drinking and dinner with travel fantasies about pyramids and opinions on the Beach Boys' Wild Honey. Stuart Berman of Pitchfork called it charming and quoted the line in which Mason sings that he is at 90 degrees to the rest of the world. Jess Harvell of Pitchfork called it a cuckoo twentysomething-crisis.
Astralwerks issued it in the US with another album track as a promotional cassette single.
More songs by The Beta Band
Dry the Rain, Dr. Baker, Squares, Assessment, Out-Side
Sources
- The Beta Band (album), Wikipedia
- The Beta Band: The Regal Years 1997-2004, Pitchfork (2013-11-04)
- The Best of The Beta Band, Pitchfork (2005-10-03)