New Choons: Surfer Blood - 'Demon Dance'

"Oh is it gonna snow? Great!" said an idiot 3 months ago (moi). Yup, the skies opened again tonight, if only slightly. I am so ready for some sun and summer and when it comes Florida feel good beach punks Surfer Blood will no doubt soundtrack the sun soaked days with upcoming sophomore album, their first on a major label, "Pythons". Their 2010 debut "Astro Coast", with its tunes so beachy you could hear the waves (and probably smell some green stuff), was a fun fuzz pop record and if new single "Demon Dance" is anything to go by, we can expect more of the same.

With a Blue Album era Weezer vibe lingering, singer J P Pitts promises "I can suck the venom out of your bones" as the band riff their way through a edgily pleasant track that Rivers Cuomo himself would have been chuffed to pen. This and the former free single "Weird Shapes" would suggest that "Pythons" will be a slight departure from their lo-fi debut with some definite cleaner production and poppier fuzz but if these two tracks are anything to go by, it won't be an unwelcome change in direction. "Pythons" will be released on June 11th on Warner Bros Records.

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