K Sikes
This is special, this is a gem, if this album were a man, he would be a mensch. A truly rocking, however sensitive blend of sweetly sung poetry, with tight driving guitars and specific-genre identifying drums, to build the strength of this album, with a backbone of bass. I could be biased, they are my favorite.
Favorite track: Dino Jay.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
The first single from our record Snowdonia. B-side is a never before heard (but very cool) outtake from the record. Limited stock, international shipping available!
Includes unlimited streaming of Snowdonia
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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$9USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Includes unlimited streaming of Snowdonia
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
Purchasable with gift card
$22USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Includes unlimited streaming of Snowdonia
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
Purchasable with gift card
$22USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Includes unlimited streaming of Snowdonia
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
SURFER BLOOD are one of the best young indie-rock bands around, and their fourth album, Snowdonia, is their most ambitious effort yet. Overcoming adversity, the band has artistically grown and thrived. Following the departure of bassist Kevin Williams and guitarist Thomas Fekete (tragically lost to cancer in May), singer/guitarist John Paul Pitts and drummer Tyler Schwarz have rebuilt a talented line-up with guitarist Michael McCleary and bassist Lindsey Mills, all four alumni of the same high school in West Palm Beach, Florida.
For Snowdonia, Pitts wrote specifically with the new band's talents in mind: "When I was writing I was thinking more about background vocals and harmonies. Lindsey and Michael are great singers, and I really wanted that to show in the songs. There are layers of vocals on almost every track, and the call-and-response parts between Lindsey and I are something totally new."
Along with plenty of Surfer Blood's signature hooks, the band concocted some epic and more complex songs with enormous attention to sonic detail. Pitts wrote and mixed the album alone, for the first time since their debut Astro Coast. The immediacy is intoxicating and the musical and lyrical results are fantastic. Surfer Blood get better and better with each album, and we're sure they'll be making great records for years to come.
Thank you to our friends and families, David Newgarden, Karl Hofstetter, Kiely Holden and everyone at JNR, Kevin Williams, Amy Winslow, Heidi Vaughan-Greenwood, Reed Smidebush, Ates Isildak, Jessica Fekete, Melissa Decker, Eric Lilavois, Mike Mori, Aaron Garrido, Adele Slater, Ed Gold, Nicholas Rotunno, Aaron Curnow, Simon Williams, Oliver Knowles, Sergio Martins, Hayuto Kasuga, Zak Bennet, Jake Cardwell, Greg Teal, Scott Koerner, Brandy Cerne, Frank Hwang, Melissa Huisman, Christine Fruehling, Mark Willingham, Dana Cooper, Jess Partridge, Glen Phillips, Justine Suzuki, Amber Carew, Marianna Soldi, Fanny Fujisawa, Gary Skrobeck, Greg Simpson, Mulet Pit, Julia Pitts, Aly Gore, Liam Milano, Ben Bryant, JR Risick, Steev Rullman, Michael Berlly, Shil Patel, Julianna Barwick, Michael McCleary Sr., Caitlin Crump and all the kind souls who have given us a place to stay on tour.