Beach Slang Celebrate Beer on New Christmas Single “Jolly Liver”

Pennsylvania rockers Beach Slang are releasing their next record, The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City, on Jan. 10, 2020, with bass from The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson. In the meantime, James Alex and co. have given us a new holiday original, “Jolly Liver.” The gruff punk tune is anything but jolly, without any gifts, halos or “flying deer”—just a stiff drink to cap off a “dead-end year.”

As the title suggests, it’s a bitter alcoholic’s anthem to the season. “I don’t want no holiday cheer,” snarls Alex, “I want beer.” Announcing the song via Twitter, Beach Slang included a quote from the famously booze-obsessed poet Charles Bukowski:

JOLLY LIVER
“If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.” — BUK
Happiest holidaze.

This thing is available only at https://t.co/wwTrNTsrFSpic.twitter.com/029KKdlt2s

— BEACH SLANG. (@beachslang) December 16, 2019

Listen to “Jolly Liver” below, along with Beach Slang’s 2015 Paste Studio session.