Blog: One Track Mind

[ download ] In these days of hyphenated musical sub-genres and cross-pollinated, hybridized taxonomies, Surfer Blood writes songs in what feels like an increasingly endangered idiom: that straightforward lexicon of a bunch of dudes rockin' out. There is more than a touch of 1990s college radio to the Palm Beach, Florida quartet's tunes, with the guitar-heavy tones of all time favorites like Pavement, The Pixies, and early-era Weezer shining through. The band just wrapped up a tour opening for Art Brut (speaking of all time favorites), and the pairing [...]

• Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes