Press
Big Black Plume on QOBUZ’ Best of 2025 list, December 2025
“I sing to you of the overflowing heart and the wide road,” avers Michael Beach towards the start of “The Sea,” Big Black Plume’s opening track. And he lives up to that statement throughout the album, offering a widescreen view of both his inward and outward vistas.”
Big Black Plume is Bryon Coley (Wire Magazine) ‘record of the day’
Michael Beach reviewed live in Perth, xpressmag November 2025
Big Black Plume reviewed in Razorcake, November 2025
Big Black Plume reviewed in Sun 13, October 2025
Big Black Plume reviewed in YellowGreenRed, September 2025
Big Black Plume is RRR Album of the Week, August 2025
Big Black Plume reviewed in Heathen Disco, July 2025
Michael Beach’s ‘The Sea’ 7″ in YellowGreenRed, March 2025
Michael Beach’s ‘The Sea’ 7″ in Wire Magazine, November 2024
Drain Brugs in Wire Magazine, 2023
Michael Beach Feature Interview in Post-Trash, March 2023
Michael Beach ‘Listed‘ in Dusted Magazine, April 2022
Dusted on Gravity/Repulsion, April 2022
Yellow Green Red on Dream Violence, June 2021
Dream Violence is RRR’s Album of the Week, March 2021
4 Stars for Dream Violence from NME, March 2021
Byron Coley on Brain Drugs – s/t, 2020
Yellow Green Red on Brain Drugs – s/t, November 2020
Byron Coley, WIRE Magazine, on ‘Curtain of Night’, April 2020
Austin Town Hall loves ‘Curtain of Night’, September 2019
Byron Coley, WIRE Magazine, on ‘Sessin’, September 2018
Several end of year honors for Gravity/Repulsion, December 2017
- Including Noisey/Vice’s top 100 songs, Doug Mosurock (Still Single), Ripe’s 100 best Australian tracks, Can’t Stop The Bleeding, Terminal Boredom, Doug Wallen (Rolling Stone, Spin), and Vinyl District’s top records of 2017.
Sjimon Gompers, Impose Magazine, on Gravity/Repulsion, August 2017
Tim Taylor Scott, Noisey, on the first single from Gravity/Repulsion, June 2017
Doug Mosurock, Still Single, on Shovels, June 2016
Byron Coley, WIRE Magazine, on Mountains + Valleys, February 2014
Sjimon Gompers, IMPOSE Magazine, on Golden Theft, August 2013
“…the grand theft surprise of the summer…an album that picks and chooses the best parts plucked out of the modern golden era that sound better than anything before.”
Raven Sings the Blues give high praise to Golden Theft, January 2014
Golden Theft reviewed in The Big Takeover, December 2013
In depth analysis of Golden Theft from Vinyl District, September 2013
Golden Theft reviewed in Impose Magazine, August 2013
Michael Beach dream analysis in Impose Magazine, August 2013
Michael Beach feature in East Bay Express, August 2013
Two Reviews in The Big Takeover, May 2012
Featured article in MessandNoise, August 2011
MessandNoise.com on “Blood Courses”
“Somehow these songs seem to exist outside the framework of popular music, their structures both classic and completely individual. As such, Blood Courses is an album that will hopefully be regarded as a fully realised work long after its contemporaries have faded from memory. It avoids the pitfalls of genre, fashion and commercial considerations so successfully, I’m tempted to call it timeless.”
Michael Beach 
