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Upon relocating to the coastal paradise of WA's Margaret River region, former Prevues frontman Matt Beahan picked up his guitar and began writing the next generation of songs that would define him as an artist. Based out of a Quindalup farmhouse, Beahan divided his time between surfing and making music – allowing his fandom of bands like The Strokes to mingle with flavours of psych rock, shoegaze and synth pop. Taking final shape as Valensi in producer Matt Gio's Rada Studios, Beahan has turned those songs into a debut EP that is an engaging, hypnotic journey of ear-worm hooks wrapped in a radiant kaleidoscope of sounds and styles. Written on a loop pedal, first single (and self-described 'yearning howl about a disintegrating relationship') Keep Hangin' On is driven by an entrancing rhythm built on metronomic drums and melodies, paced with the menacing stomp of a Romero zombie. Throwing back to the song's loop pedal origins, its sounds are beautifully matched together... the burly