"Let's Go Surfing" - The Drums

Beach party, anyone? Following the recent trend of blending 80's revival, indie guitar beats and minimal beauty, The Drums have created a song that sounds like a DJ battle between the Beach Boys and Peter Bjorn and John. "Let's Go Surfing" is not just a joyful clichéd twirl through caspardrillo-nostalgia; the echo-ey vocals and repeted lyrics add a somewhat stolen, rogueish element to the track. With chamber-rock authenticity along the same lines as Belle & Sebastian's "The Blues Are Still Blue" evolving alongside summerside Coral-like reminiscings, "Let's Go Surfing" is a catchy yet fleeting song.

The clapping and whistling present throughout the track gives it an amalgamated sepiatone; this is the musical equivalent of watching home videos of your childhood seaside holidays. The whole song eminates this sense that it was recorded on the sand, amongst the spray and salt of a rare sunny day in June (or that there wasn't that big a recording budget). The harmonic-vocals remind the listener of Hot Club de Paris' 2007 album, Pop Till It Drops but the shadowy riffs and stripped-down melodies present on "Let's Go Surfing" hark of 2009-chic.

Genius reccomends; The Big Pink, Bombay Bicycle Club, Wild Beasts, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, The Rumble Strips