"The sound is all over the map, drifting from crunchy post punk, to woozy psychedelic drift, to countrified rust belt songsmithery, and several other stops in between... Gorgeous stuff for sure." -- Aquarius Records, Dec. 2011
"A Horse is brilliant, understated, yet powerful and emotive. I guess you could call it a "singer/songwriter" effort, but that'd be selling it short. Fans of the best of Elliot Smith, the best of Lou Reed, and Straight Ahead, the 1984 solo LP by Greg Sage of The Wipers, please have a listen to 'A Horse' here...
http://michaelbeach.bandcamp.com/" -- Art for Spastics, Feb. 2011
Michael Beach interviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, April 2012
Mountains + Valleys review in YourFlesh Magazine, January 2012
Beach receives Best of 2011 Honors for Best Song and Best EP from Bandcamp Hunter, January 2012
Two Beach tunes picked for Boshnoggin's Nine Most Euphonious Gems of 2011, December 2011
Michael Beach feature/interview in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 2011
Spacerockmountain digs Mountains +Valleys, November 2011
Review Stalker recommends Mountains + Valleys, November 2011
Mountains + Valleys reviewed in Stoned Sun Vibrations, November 2011
Tympanogram "introduces" Michael Beach, November 2011
The Bay Bridged, November 2011
Mountains + Valleys reviewed in Listen Before You Buy, November 2011
Sonic Masala reviews Mountains + Valleys, November 2011
Bandcamp Hunter selects Mountains + Valleys as its Pick of the Week, October 2011
Mountains + Valleys reviewed in The Needle Drop, October 2011
Featured article in MessandNoise, August 2011
Review in Still Single, June 2011
Droning Earth digs "A Horse/The Exhilarating Rise", May 2011
Review in Life is Noise, April 2011
Review in 7inches, April 2011
The Needle Drop digs the "A Horse/The Exhilarating Rise" 7-inch, March 2011
Curious Works, March 2011
Loudvine wants "to be a part of whatever Michael Beach does musically." Read more... February 2011
A strong endorsement from San Francisco's The Bay Bridged, February 2011
A review in France's S.A.V., February 2011
"The Exhilirating Rise" featured in Built on a Weak Spot podcast, January 2011
Review of "A Horse/The Exhilarating Rise" 7-inch in Sonic Masala, January 2011
Nice nod for "A Horse/The Exhilarating Rise" 7-inch in AllEveryoneUnited, January 2011
"A Horse/The Exhilarating Rise" 7-inch covered in The Hartford Courant, January 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.” Read more...