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Sep 3, 2025There’s an underlying recognition here, particularly on the part of Miller: parties end. The most opulent train can go off the rails. It’s this juxtaposition – brashness and vulnerability, abandon and a recognition of impermanence – that makes No Hard Feelings an arresting sequence.
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Oct 10, 2025No Hard Feelings holds together perhaps even better than Blame My Ex, and there's a sense that the Beaches, who were in their early teens when they started out, are maturing into themselves and gaining a road-tested swagger. Yet they still know how to have fun.
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Sep 3, 2025Having made a transformative 34-minute leap from the hesitant ‘Can I Call You in the Morning?’ to this Girls-meets-Sex and the City big moment, full of energy, self-irony, and hope, The Beaches sound like they’ve finally forgotten their exes ever existed.
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Sep 3, 2025If 2023's Blame My Ex was the Beaches testing out new dimensions of their sound, they've honed it on No Hard Feelings, cementing themselves as a band that's earned a place in the public consciousness internationally, possibly for years to come.
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Record CollectorSep 3, 2025The Beaches get their points across by grafting moody alt-rock textures - looking at you, The Smiths-esque Dirty Laundry and Cure-reminiscent Sorry For Your Loss - with explosive chorus hooks. [Oct 2025, p.130]