Blog: Mixtape Maestro

Yes, the chorus to Family of The Year 's "St. Croix" features the cringe-inducing lines "You bring the ocean/ I'll bring the motion/ Together we'll make a love potion/...Dancing all night in slow motion" and no, it doesn't deserve an instant trip to the Recycle Bin because of that. Why? Because the track, a tale of a "boy from Florida" who escapes to the Caribbean to "get over it" from the L.A.-based indie-folk act's new EP of the same name, so irresistibly evokes the surf n' sunshine bliss of summer season good times with its happy-go-lucky [...]