Surfer Blood - Astrocoast (From Salisbury Journal)

Surfer Blood - Astrocoast

3:03pm Thursday 27th May 2010 in CD Reviews

Artist - Surfer Blood
Album - Astrocoast
Label - Kanine

Surfer Blood are a band from West Palm Beach, Florida, and follows the new movement in bands that hark back to a 70s sound.

Here, they embrace 70s summer pop to produce a sound like Weezer mixed with Girls. The quartet also, in deriving their Weezer references, manage to sound like some Nick Hayward 80s bands.

Ultimately, mixing in the trendy Afrobeat (Yeasayer, Vampire Weekend) and eclectic sounds (a bit of dosie-do here, a bit of New Romantic there, produces an uneven record - the kind of record that you'd like to like, but that fails to achieve anything memorable once the last song has gone.

The band seem to have hooked into a nice wave of hype, which may do them no favours in the long run, as the music just isn't completely there yet.

Rating 7/10
Mike Rea