Astro Coast [Reissue] by Surfer Blood (Record, 2012)

Kanine Records

0827175007913

25050185670

Surfer Blood

2010s

Record

2012

Studio Recording

Astro Coast [Reissue]

Album

Pop, Alternative, Rock

3.5 stars out of 5 -- “It’s the sunny, clever hooks (recalling early Weezer and the Shins) and tropical rhythms setting the scene.”, 3 stars out of 5 -- "Opener 'Floating Vibes' sounds like the Cure if Robert Smith had been raised on a beach...", "Astro Coast Is Chaotic Fun with a West Coast Vibe....Sung with Infectious Passion.", 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "'Swim' is the monster riff-geek odyssey, complete with an Afro-pop breakdown that turns into a gorgeous distortion convulsion...", "With Crunchy Riffs, Sunny Harmonies, Inscrutable Humor, Occasional Strings, and Afropop Touches.", 4 stars out of 5 -- “’Floating Vibes’ adds Pavement angularity to some Pixies-like surfin’ reverberations...”, "This is a great guitar album in the way Weezer's Blue Album, Built to Spill's KEEP IT LIKE A SECRET, or, more recently, Japandroids' POST-NOTHING are: six-strings serve as a multiplier for hooks..."

The Orchard Records

1

Sweetly surf-tinged, Surfer Blood's debut album is a breath of fresh air in an increasingly cerebral indie rock world.