![]() ![]() The past few years has seen Surfer Blood regroup to produce some of their most interesting, well-crafted statements. On the music front, they’ve faced a similar situation to other bands of an “endless summer” outlook that debuted around the same time (Best Coast, Wavves, etc.), who have had to contend with the storm clouds of the increasingly divergent and sometimes grim-faced modes indie rock has taken.Īll of this says more about the capricious whims of the novelty-hungry hype machine than the artistic evolution of the band. From being dropped by Warner Brothers Records following their sophomore album Pythons, to lead guitarist Thomas Fekete’s re-diagnosis and succumbing to cancer between their last two releases, Surfer Blood’s trajectory has been constantly re-routing since it first began. Since then, however, the tide has turned in on itself time and again, almost on a yearly basis. At the dawn of the decade-a blink of an eye ago, and yet seemingly a bygone era-South Florida’s Surfer Blood seized the indie blog zeitgeist with their brand of perpetually sunny, reverb-drenched power-pop, spearheaded by singles like “Swim” and “Floating Vibes,” the choruses of which are still echoing in fan sing-alongs, TV and video game soundtracks. ![]()
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