Beckside of Richness Turns It up on Beamer, Eighties Guitars with A Berlin Address
Why A 2025 Catalogue Single Still Reads as A Live Band Playing in One Room
The guitars come in first on Beamer, bright and slightly ahead of the beat, with the rhythm section pushing rather than settling. It sounds like a band in a room, which in 2026 is worth saying out loud. Beckside of Richness released the track on 3 February 2025, and it has held its place in their catalogue since.
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Where Beckside Of Richness Fit In The Current Rock Revival
There is a wave of bands working the eighties and nineties again, and most of them pick a lane. Some go full synth and shoulder pads. Some take the nineties alternative route and stop there. Beckside of Richness do neither, which is what makes them worth placing carefully.
Their register is rock, pop and funk that lands somewhere between the two decades rather than inside either. The guitars carry the eighties end, all upstroke and chime. The song structure is nineties alt-pop, verse into chorus with no wasted bar. That combination has a long history in European bands who grew up on imported records and never felt obliged to be purist about which year they were borrowing from.
The Berlin address matters too. This is not a scene band in the local sense, playing a circuit and sounding like the room next door. They played Fete de la Musique in the city in 2025, but the record itself does not carry a Berlin accent. It could have come from anywhere with a decent amp and a shared record collection.
That is a compliment in this case. The band trade on songs rather than on a scene identity, and Beamer is the clearest example of it.
The Adjacent Acts Worth Naming
If you want a shelf to file this on, start with The Cars. That is the eighties reference point that actually fits: rock band mechanics, pop instincts, guitars that ring rather than grind, and an unwillingness to let a song run long.
Weezer is the nineties half of the equation, specifically the early records where the alt-rock guitars were doing pop work. Beckside of Richness sit close to that idea, though with less irony in the delivery.
The Killers are the modern comparison, and the useful one for a listener deciding whether to press play. They are a band who made eighties reference points sound current rather than nostalgic. Beamer aims at the same target on a smaller budget.
None of those are claims of equivalence. They are directions. A listener who keeps all three in rotation will recognise the vocabulary here immediately.
The Case The Band Make For Themselves
Beckside of Richness were founded by two schoolmates, S. Beck and Rich P., which is where the name comes from. The story they tell about the start is a good one. They intended to play every instrument themselves as a duo, and that plan lasted about three rehearsals before they went off to found real bands instead.
The band lean hard on one point in particular. No artificial intelligence was used in the making of Beamer, and they describe themselves as natural born songwriters. That is a positioning statement as much as a production note, and in 2026 it is a live argument rather than an obvious one.
The official video makes the same case by accident. It is credited as a cellphone video, which is either a budget decision or a statement, and either way it matches the record. Nothing here is trying to sound bigger than it is.
The track has picked up coverage since release, with features from AFX Radio & Blog, Illustrate Magazine and KMasters Music Station. For an independent band working outside the usual promotional machinery, that spread is the useful signal. Radio and blog features are the currency at this level, because they reach listeners who are actively looking rather than listeners being served.
It is also worth noting what the band are not doing. There is no attempt to chase a current production template, no guest feature bolted on for playlist reach, and no reinvention of the sound between releases. Beamer sounds like the same band that made everything around it, which is why a catalogue track from early 2025 can still be worked in 2026 without looking like a rerun.
Where To Hear Beamer And Follow Beckside Of Richness
Beamer streams on Spotify, where their other single I Know That You Know sits alongside it. The official video is on their YouTube channel.
Beckside of Richness post across Instagram, TikTok and Facebook, and everything they keep current is collected on their Linktree.
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