Label: skramz

Who they are

Beau Navire formed in Oakland, California in 2009. The band’s own Bandcamp bio keeps it short: Soul. Punk. Flowerviolence. Rate Your Music dates the formation to August 2009 and files the group under screamo and emoviolence. The site lists Kris Udekwu on drums, Jon Schmitt on bass, and Trei Campbell on guitar and vocals. Sean Leary joined on guitar in 2010, after an early stint by a guitarist listed only as Jasmine. The Last.fm biography adds membership ties to iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook, Loma Prieta, and Spectres.

Discography

A demo cassette opened the run in 2009. A four-way split 8-inch followed in 2010. Its partners were Carrion Spring, Te Lloraría Un Puto Río, and The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch. Split 7-inches with Adobe Homes and Suffix sat alongside them. Life Moves, a one-sided 12-inch EP, came out on April 12, 2011 through Melotov, Moment of Collapse, and Shove. Its seven songs open with March Of 03 and close with Fitting Pieces.

Hours, the first full-length, arrived in May 2011 on React With Protest, with a European tour that June. Lumens followed on June 9, 2012. Jack Shirley recorded, mixed, and mastered it. Inkblot, Moment of Collapse, and React With Protest released it together. The ten-track album includes Prisms, Communiqué, and Dead End, Start Over. A split 7-inch with Republic of Dreams closed the original run in 2012. Unwinnable’s 2025 reunion column dates the active years as 2009 to 2012 or 2013.

Labels

React With Protest released Hours. Moment of Collapse, a Hamburg label, put out Life Moves and co-released Lumens. Melotov and Shove shared the Life Moves cycle, and Inkblot joined for Lumens. The 2025 reissues landed on Dog Knights Productions in the UK. Persistent Vision Records runs the North American store, and Voice of the Unheard covers Europe for the label.

Most recent release

The Hours 2025 Remaster appeared on July 1, 2025. A Lumens remaster followed on Dog Knights as DK184. The band then regrouped for a short reunion run in the summer of 2025. Dates included 924 Gilman in Berkeley on July 30 and New Friends Fest in Toronto. Brooklyn Vegan had placed the band on the published fest lineup back in March.

The current release is DK195: Splits & EPs 2009-2012. Dog Knights released it on August 14, 2026. The LP gathers 23 tracks running 43:45 in total. The material covers the demo tape, Life Moves, and the splits with Adobe Homes, Suffix, and Republic of Dreams. Jack Shirley remastered all 23 tracks at The Atomic Garden, and Sean Leary supplied new artwork. The first pressing counts 333 copies: 111 on emerald green, black, and white smash vinyl, 222 on clear with splatter. The cassette run is 50 copies and the CD run is 100. The press notes list 140 gram vinyl in reverse-board jackets with a download code.

Where to buy and listen

All 23 tracks stream on the Dog Knights Bandcamp page. The Dog Knights web store sells vinyl, cassette, and CD to UK buyers. Persistent Vision Records handled the North American pressing at 26 dollars with shipping estimated for late August 2026. Its product page listed every variant as sold out as of September 3. The band’s own Bandcamp holds the Hours and Lumens remasters, the Suffix split, and a 16.90 dollar digital discography.