Beans (Fuzz Club) share single 'My Room' ahead of new LP

Geelong / Melbourne, Australia band Beans (fronted by The Murlocs drummer Matt Blach) release new single ‘My Room’ – the second taste of their incoming ‘Less Louder’ album out September 11th 2026 on Fuzz Club.

Written and recorded around the time as its predecessor, 2024’s 'Boots N Cats', ‘Less Louder’ is that album’s more mellow and laid-back counterpart. Where the first of the two records that Blach set to work on in his DIY garage studio over the pandemic was a drum-driven set of rhythmic garage-psych grooves, 'Less Louder' is a blissed-out, harmony-driven record firmly in the “Sunday Afternoon” category, as Blach puts it. Left undisturbed for a few years, the second and final set of Beans recordings from that era is finally seeing the light of day now, landing mixed by Jesse Williams and mastered by John Lee.

On new single ‘My Room’, which arrives off the back of lead single ‘Resister’ last month, Blach says: "My Room is a track broadly about feeling content. The canvas toward the entire thing is for someone (myself at the time) to feel at ease. To know or feel true comfort. Chase things to make you feel grounded. Knowing to be happy to spend time at home alone and enjoy all the simple beauty to life. Happy to not feel as if there is something missing. To be able to channel and manage their own thoughts without over thinking them, putting ones mind at ease with a ‘ciggie and a cup of tea."

Drifting through psychedelic pop, surf and doo-wop influences, the incoming 'Less Louder' is all breezy, deeply-infectious melody and hazy jangle – foregrounding softer, more acoustic production, more piano and Rhodes, and dialling down the distortion and the wig-out lysergic grooves you might expect from a Beans record.

"We went a lot more folky and chill on 'lockdown sessions 2'", Blach recalls: "Although Less Louder was recorded around the same time as Boots N Cats, as the title intentionally describes, it's a lot more laid-back in comparison. We're pleased to share some different paths and a new intimacy so to speak. There's a change in feel to these songs, with more mellow tones. Lyrically, the songs are based around the time they were written. Some about love, some about loneliness, some about memories, some about sleeping or hiding away."

Like ‘Boots N Cats’, 'Less Louder' was written over that surreal extended limbo period and self- recorded at Blach's home in back in 2021: "It kept me sane and feeling productive to still be writing/recording and achieving something, having that opportunity and time and space really got my tires turning." However, where the first of the two found Blach playing all instruments himself, the full Beans line-up are back in tow here: Blach on songwriting and much of the vocals / guitar / drums duties, whilst backed up by bandmates Jack Kong on guitar, Mitch Rice on keys, Vincent Clementson on bass and Lachie McKiernan on drums.