The Drums’ bio says this was the first song founders and best friends (so topical) Jonathan Pierce and Jacob Graham wrote together, though it sounds like they had the ghosts of Brit new wave past in the room, too. Pierce adopts the accent and hem length in this clip, so if you were a Drums hater before, you’ll find lots of hate on here. Otherwise this song, from their upcoming, untitled LP, is a charming bit of agitated Britpop, by some guys living in Brooklyn.
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Summertime! EP is out now on Moshi Moshi.
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wow. i thought the big country fetish died when people started losing interest in british sea power. but they were never this obvious.
I don’t understand why there are some many Drums haters. Their music is so fun.
I agree! Let’s go Surfing and Saddest Summer are sooooo catchy and addictive. How can you possibly hate on that?! I guess that when bands get popular so quickly, they become the go-to-hate guys.
The video is stupid though.
Emo Kids from Florida doing Joy Division Pop. they are not from brooklyn and neither are 100% of the brooklyn bands. Isn’t it a tad weird that The Drums come out with “lets go SURFING” and buzz band of moment is SURFER Blood, MGMT new album cover is cats SURFING, surfer blood played with another buzz band BEACH fossils. this scene is so overplayed and repetitive and all these blogs eat it up
Addressing the surf/beach thing that has you all worked up; I would be more annoyed by it if any of the bands you mentioned actually SOUNDED anything alike, but they don’t. Beach House doesn’t sound like Surfer Blood and neither of them sound like Washed Out; who, in turn, sound nothing like Wavves. Why should it bother you if any of them reference the beach in their lyrics or song titles? Should we boycott every band that comes along writing about “love”? Lord knows that’s been done before, right?
I agree they dont sound alike but its all the same scene, the stereogum pitchfork brooklynvegan scene. To reinforce how silly it is, stereogum JUST posted a video by a band called SUMMER Camp. they may not sound alike but they are all listening to eachother, it just shows that its more about being cool then the actual content of the music. The same crowd going to Market Hotel to see Surfer Blood is buying The Drums EP and rating Beach House best new music on pitchfork etc etc …. also when soo many bands come out of the woodworks within just ONE year with surf reference it shows a lack of creativity. it’s not like im saying every band mentioning surf isnt good. In fact Surfer Bloods new albums really good. It’s just too sceney and the trouble with the Blog-Age where one holier then thou hipster picks the bands to put on his site and creates these 6 month fades where Shit-Gaze Two piece bands Japandroids, No Age, Waves all sell out 1,000 seat venues . with all the good quality music out there there is no need for all three of those bands to be written about on these sites all the time, only one of these bands (No Age) is actually deserving
I like how you rail against Stereogum/Pitchfork/Brooklyn Vegan/et al for dictating who’s cool and then finish by dictating who’s cool.
ye but i’m not the most visitt ed music journalism site around…also there’s nothing wrong with someone dictating what music is good i’m just saying it’s a scary time in the industry when its controlled by the same few people who have the same obscure taste
Um, the music industry has always been that way. For years record labels dictated trends through payola and other forms of bribery. The music industry is a lot better of today because of the Internet. A band today can become stars overnight in much the same way Vampire Weekend did when they blew-up at the end of ’07.
Do Pitchfork and Stereogum have a lot of influence on the world of indie rock? Yeah, and occasionally it gets abused, but they still do champion various forms of music that wouldn’t necessarily get attention in the already insulated world of indie rock where many times anything beyond a guitar, bass, and drums will get mocked. In the last three months alone, they’ve covered albums ranging from dubstep to ’70s Afrobeat to obscure freak-disco.
I get that it seems like they’re creating trends with the gentrified Afropop and shit-gaze, but that’s nothing new to independent music. In the late ’80s/early ’90s, all the zines were creating hype for shoegaze or Seattle’s sludge punk or whatever and then got bored and moved on to lo-fi and Britpop and so on. It’s just the nature of this type of music. Most of the people listening to it have a tendency to search out new and exciting music so eventually they’re going leave styles behind.
you make a good point rskva. definitely true, was just frustrated with the current crappy set of bands and I suppose in due time the tides will change.