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Catch indie TikTok darlings Beach Bunny at Paradise Rock Club

Lili Trifilio of Beach Bunny. Scott Olson / Getty Images

By Christopher Gavin

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There’s a good chance you’ve already heard Beach Bunny, even without streaming their debut release, last year’s “Honeymoon.”.

Their 2018 self-release “Prom Queen” took TikTok by storm during the summer of 2019. By early 2020, when the Chicago-based indie pop band put out their full-length album, the song had already racked up 67 million streams.

And this was no fluke: Critics agree “Honeymoon” is a worthy follow-up. Pitchfork gave the album a considerable 7.0 and Rolling Stone’s four-star write-up raved about how a group previously writing “​​mostly teen-themed garage-pop tunes” could spin songs building “a mountain of feelings in a refreshingly brief span of time.”

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“Honeymoon will be an immediate boon to fans of heart-on-sleeve indie bands like That Dog, Waxahatchee, Charli Bliss, and the Beths,” writes Jon Dolan. “[Lead singer Lili] Trifilio is a very good songwriter with a lovely, somewhat folk-toned voice, and Beach Bunny are all good musicians who’ve attained an impressive amount of musical know-how in their few years together.”

Pitchfork contributor Abby Jones offers a similar take: ​​”Trifilio excels in straightforward, recognizable experiences of heartache, while still leaving space for listeners to attach their own nuance. Even as we get a little older, Honeymoon suggests, the adolescent anxieties of earlier Beach Bunny songs never fully wane; we just get a little better at handling them. As long as there are heartbreaks and insecurities, albums like this will have purpose.”

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And, clearly, Beach Bunny is in demand: Two nights in Boston on tour for a debut album? Something is happening here indeed.

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