Coming off a string of acclaimed EPs, Beach Slang’s first album, 2015’s The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us, won remarkably effusive acclaim from a number of critics, and wound up on several “best-of-the-year” lists. James Alex wrote much of A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings on that album’s support tour, during which he spent a lot of time with the kids who’d picked up the record.
"A lot of the songs [on Loud Bash] are the stories of the kids who got turned on to Beach Slang by the first album,” said Alex. “They’re autobiographical, too, but kind of at a remove—I’m not that young kid anymore, but I used to be.”