Surfer Blood's name is tougher than their sound. No doubt. But what happens when the West Palm Beach buzz group hook up with Baroness drummer Allen Blickle for a remix of Astro Coast's nimble frontrunner "Swim (To Reach The End)"? It's an interesting pairing: A longstanding (relatively speaking, in digital-age terms) metal band who've been quickly crossing over into a different non-metal realm with their Blue Record aligning themselves with an indie band just arriving at the party. Random? Not really. When we posted Baroness' "Swollen And Halo," I quoted a Decibel article where Blickle documented his Savannah band's listening habits:
I have no idea how the hell we ended up playing this kind of music. When we first got together, all [bassist] Summer [Welch] listened to was King Diamond, [guitarist/vocalist] John [Baizley] was obsessed with old Flood records, and I was into weird shit like the Album Leaf.
Keep in mind the skittering qualities of Jimmy LaValle's percussion accents (albeit in a sludgier wind-tunnel) while you take in Allen's "Swim (Alpaca Remix)."
Surfer Blood - "Swim (Alpaca Remix by Allen Blickle of Baroness)" (MP3)
The original:
Surfer Blood - "Swim (To Reach The End)" (MP3)
Astro Coast is out 1/19 via Kanine. Surfer Blood:
01/13 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom #
01/14 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
01/25 - St. Augustine, FL @ Cafe Eleven &
01/26 - Orlando FL @ Backbooth &
01/27 - West Palm Beach, FL @ Respectable Street Cafe &
02/03 - London @ Hoxton Bar and Kitchen
02/04 - Kingston @ Hippodrome
02/05 - London @ KOKO
02/09 - London @ Scala
02/16 - Orlando, FL@ Backbooth%
02/17 - Deland, FL @ DaVinci %
02/18 - Tallahassee, FL @ Engine Room %
02/19 - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn %
02/20 - Nashville , TN @ The End%
02/22 - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor - %
02/23 - Morgantown, WV @123 Pleasant Street %
02/24 - Washington DC @ Dc 9 %
02/26 - Hanover, NH @ Dartmouth College !
02/27 - Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel $
02/28 - New York, NY| @ Mercury Lounge ^^
03/01 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Barbary *
03/02 - Allston, MA @ Great Scott *
03/03 - Providence, RI @ AS220 *
03/05 - Montreal @ Il Motore *
03/06 - Toronto @ Sneaky Dees *
03/07 - Geneseo, NY @ Suny Geneseo College *
03/08 - Meadville, PA @ Allegheny *
03/09 - Detroit MI @ Magic Stick *
03/11 - Bloomington, IN @ the Bishop *
03/12 - Columbia, MO @ Mojos *
03/13 - Lawrence, KS @ Replay Lounge *
03/14 - Oklahoma City @ The Conservatory *
03/17 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
03/18 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
03/19 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
03/20 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk (Panache Booking SXSW Showcase) *!
* w/ Turbo Fruits
^ w/ Holiday Shores
& w/ Monotonix
# w/ The Drums
! w/ Small Black
% w/ Turbo Fruits & Holiday Shores
$ w/ Turbo Fruits, Beach Fossils, Grooms
^^ w/ Turbo Fruits, We are Country Mice, Radical Sons
[Photo by Ian Witlen]
