Being There
Breaking Away
I’m glad that Being There released their debut album Breaking Away in June, because had it come out between November and March, I would’ve forgotten it quite quickly. Not because the LP isn’t good – it is – but because Being There’s sound is so suited to summer, I can’t imagine listening to Breaking Away and being cold.
Breaking Away is the band’s third release on the Young and Lost Club label, the four-piece having come out with a double a-side back in October and the single ’17′ more recently this April. If you took Pavement, and replaced Steve Malkmus with Peggy Wang and Kip Berman from the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, you might come close to achieving a Being There sound. But if you were between the ages of 18 and 25 in the ’90s, and were given the choice of listening to Breaking Away or Slanted and Enchanted, you’d probably choose the Pavement album. In other words, Breaking Away is ’90s music for kids who’ve come of age in the ’00s.