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- Summary: The Florida-based quintet shows the influence of 1990s alternative and indie rock music on its debut full-length album.
- Record Label: Kanine
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop, Alternative
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Floating Vibes | |
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Forget the second coming I need you in the here and now Instead of dreamin' up a way to Spread your name across the world somehow When you told me... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 22 out of 25
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Mixed: 3 out of 25
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He delivers a reprise of the same B part in a more forceful, normal voice: "Why is everything a chore?/I'm too young to be defeated." So far, he isn't. Wish him luck with that riptide.
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To some extent, Astro Coast comes off like a muscular, radio-ready version of music that would've been found on a limited-edition 45 back in the mid-'90s. But the way Surfer Blood balances escapism and grit is a neat trick, and one that never really loses its sense of wonder.
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Q MagazineLed by a yearning frontman getting his Morrissey on, it's a debut that's boyishly and buoyantly charming. [Aug 2010, p.126]
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Their potential is the wrong thing to appreciate: it's their immediacy, their unstudied and unfocused energy, that hits the spot.
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Maybe that's the key to the whole album, how it can seem to be a blog-fisher one moment and slap you upside the head another: it dissolves before you actually know what hit you. But for a lot of us, that's all the more reason to dive right back in.
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Jan 7, 2011Astro Coast is a welcome reminder of the youthful vigour and playfulness of early Pavement and Weezer, imbibing the Sixties rule-book of good pop without coming off as a bad pastiche.
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Even at its best this whole record sounds like a band who wants to make an impact by trying to be everything to everyone. And because they're not too good at everything they do yet, this lack of a definitive identity that makes it difficult to take them seriously (or if this is their definitive identity, they're just boring).
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Positive: 6 out of 6
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MannyF.Jan 21, 2010Best damn record this year, and the year is just starting!!! a must listen. the hooks, OMG THE HOOKS!!!
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MovitunesFeb 2, 2010
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eastsideJan 21, 2010
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TylerIJan 27, 2010
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Sep 22, 2011
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Sep 7, 2010
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