Beach Slang is known for a few things: heart on their sleeves lyrics, reckless rock music and obnoxiously long titles. So when it was announced in August that the band's newest release was not going to have a guitar on it, fans of the band were interested. What followed was a four song EP titled, We Were Babies & We Were Dirtbags . The EP had no new material. Rather, it had two songs from previous albums and two covers. We Were Babies & We Were Dirtbags starts off with "Future Mixtape For Art Kids" from their 2016 release A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings. Hearing the words, " Play it loud/Play it fast/Play me something that will always last " translated well when played on piano; even though, it was a little odd that the imagery of the lyrics did not quite match the music. However, frontman James Alex has mastered the ability to translate his music to whatever he is doing. My personal favorite song on the EP was the second track, "Bad Art ...