Toxic Versailles is Tres Cool: T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs.

2.11.09

T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs.

Like a golden drop of summer hinting at the cascade that ensues itself this time of year, drops some bands that are playing what we're all searching to feel like. While the colour palettes go off the chart, distorted by sun bleached retinas, I'm glad this summer we can treat ourselves to some season uniting tunes that wont hurt those eyeballs behind polarized plastic. The aural sense is stimulated with American exports' The Drums and Surfer Blood leaching like the echos of their post-summer rays from their current fall-time foliage, blowing down south for a timely Oz bleaching.

Saddest Summer - The Drums

Floating Vibes - Surfer Blood

Spawned from the doldrums of New York and Miami respectively, these bands are inseparable when posting about, purely because its the same East Coast 'post-punk-indie-pop' that thrived in the historically west coast Beach Boys. They share the same energy and 'synergy of the sun'. It's Surfer rock chic befitting the locale beach club coalesced with the friendliness of the weather, however its 'popopop' Americana in the fashion of east shore blues (and I mean Blues as some of the tracks delve deep, as opposed to west coast 'surfin' USA') and indie rock hues extrapolates a different party vibe. More for close knit friendly times. These are not stadia anthems, rather something you could dance, party and reflect too while it plays out of your summer speakers or ghetto-blasters with that of 30 of your best friends or as two people amongst the setting sun. So wash yourself out with these. Presenting the Summer Soundtrack to my life.
Now all I want to listen to is alittle Beach Boys...