February 17th, 2010 | Tracks

Surfer Blood “Floating Vibes”

Surfer Blood Polaroid

If you love big dumb guitars and fist pumping, and who doesn’t every now and then, you’ll probably enjoy West Palm Beach export Surfer Blood. They are a brand spanking new band, which you can clearly tell from this Polaroid photo I got off their MySpace page (as counterintuitive as that may seem), and their debut album Astro Coast was just released last month on indie label Kanine Records.

The first single, “Swim,” has been getting some buzz since late last year, but it is the album’s opening track, “Floating Vibes,” that has particularly struck my fancy. It boasts a great fuzzy riff, a surf vibe, some handclaps, and the kind of bitingly sarcastic lyrics about relationships that only young people know how to write.

“When you told me you were leavin’
I wasn’t thirsty for revenge
No I wasn’t disappointed much at all
Cause you’ll be back again”

Hell, they even drop an F-bomb later on, and I’ve always been a sucker for bands that sprinkle in a little profanity here and there. They’ve been compared to a few bigger names that know a bit about sarcasm themselves, namely Pavement and Weezer, but to quote the first line of “Floating Vibes,” you can “forget the second coming.” Despite having an entire song on their album named after David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, they aren’t all that cerebral, and they’re at their best when they don’t try to be. Check out the song below, and pick up the album if you’re into it, it’s not a masterpiece, but it’s a solid debut.

Also, they’re currently on tour, I have tickets for the show at Great Scott next month, which only cost me like $8 bucks, and I would highly recommend you take this fleeting opportunity to see them in a small venue because I expect big things in the future.

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