As charming and elusive as the name is, BEOUR seems to title itself as a band with an immediate and desperate plea for help. Fitting, considering their music is at best a prostitution of instruments, cheap and hideously shrouded in a veil of distortion and animalistic impulses. Not the kind of music you'd pay for while looking for debauched pleasure, no matter how viciously self-inflicted, and certainly not brought home to mother. It is apparent that this crude bunch has only semi-talent to sustain itself, something they are entirely aware of. Enter Contrivance and carefully conceived Deception. Realizing their innate lack of skills, they take songs and un-compose them, with an abundance of infantile percussion, gimcrack instruments, and a lack of direction that leaves you alone, bare, and desolate, and suffice to say, without the tranquility you might hope for in such a situation. I'd recommend this band for those with an equal affinity for tastelessly "Artistic" music, who announce their avant-garde lifestyles by playing music out the windows of their college dorms. BEOUR are what crayons are to the art-world, childish, unrefined, and a textured mess. Not only will their music die in time, it may not ever emerge from its oral-fixation stage. Grow up kids, and at least discover whether you can cut it in the workplace.
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