Video: Surfer Blood at Brooklyn Bowl - After The Jump CMJ Party

We are frequently smitten with the bands that we feature in our "Taking Off The Shrinkwrap". Alas, not all bands can make it past the "one-hit wonder" tag and they leave us, heartbroken and laying in the gutter weeping softly. And then there's Surfer Blood. When we featured them a few months ago, we had high hopes. After listening to their amazing first album "Astrocoast", those warm, fuzzy feelings that we once had, has turned to outright lust. Vocalist/Guitarist JP Pitts took a few moments to indulge our fantasies last week... [...]

Right-o, majority of this technical bollocks appears to be resolved now.....famous last words.....so the CMJ reports can be completed this week and put to bed. For the moment, though, I thought I'd shine the spotlight on a band that perhaps didn't blindingly wow me live last week but have been spinning repeatedly - to the extent that things actually spin any more - on the iPod. That band is Floridian quintet Surfer Blood . MYSPACE [...]

• Surfer Blood - Swim (To Reach the End)