“turn the music up in the headphones”
SURF’S UP
With the loud-fast mentality of the Ramones, the IDGAF swagger of a male-female Be Your Own Pet, and a dash of the chill low-fi vibey-ness of Wavves - SURFING walks the fine line between sound-alike and just original enough that I’ve been listening to them non-stop for the past three days. These kids are from Harrisonburg, Virginia, so I don’t actually know how much surfing they do, but I’ll buy it. If Lana Del Rey is instagram, SURFING is a disposable camera you dropped drunkenly in your grandma’s pool on the 4th of July. Harsh guitar riffs over hazy synth and sloppy but calculated vocals, make for for a wholly palatable roughness. Their EP Ingramz is a good showcase of their range, as well. Where “Dead Wave” has kind of a Dead Weather through a paper shredder thing going on (the guitar is SICK), “Hapathy” reminds me of Pavment’s “Price Yeah!” in that it’s impossibly loud and clumsy but I can still listen to it all the time? Either way, the EP is solid, and it definitely gets better every time I listen to it.
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Photography: Paul D. Murphy