Beachy Head
Named for the East Sussex cliff, a single in June 2010 and track 7 of the debut.
Veronica Falls, from Veronica Falls (2010)
The band is credited as writer and producer. It came out in the UK on June 14, 2010 on No Pain in Pop with "Staying Here" on the B-side, and in the US on September 21, 2010 on Captured Tracks. Phillipa Bloomfield directed the video. The title is Beachy Head, the East Sussex chalk cliff and highest sea cliff in Britain; Vice says it was named after the spot with no further explanation from the band, and Consequence of Sound called it an ode of longing for a popular suicide locale that dips into surf-rock. NME's Barry Nicolson called it a blushing hymn to the UK's favorite suicide spot. We found no first-hand statement from the band on the lyric.
Clash wrote in April 2010 that the new single sounds like Phil Spector trapped in a fuzzbox, and DIY gave it four stars, finding it optimistically ominous with a hint of the Cramps. AllMusic named it an album highlight. We could not retrieve setlist counts, and we do not know which version our upload is.
Sources
- Beachy Head (song), Wikipedia
- Veronica Falls plot new single, Clash (2010-04-16)
- Veronica Falls, NME (2011-10-14)
- Veronica Falls, Vice (2011-11)