Waterslide (2024)
I am still trying to catch up on writing about 2024 albums and I'm trying to focus on the ones that ended up on my year end best of list. It's not super common for me to put an EP on my year end album list, but the six songs that Surrender have served up on this EP are so great that it's impossible to listen to it and not proclaim it as one of the very best releases of last year.
Surrender comes to us with a pedigree that immediately catches my attention. When you've got members of bands like the Hum Hums and CSS coming together to make a new band of punchy, punked-up power pop, it's probably unlikely that I'm not going to love it. And boy oh boy, do I love this EP.
It's fast enough that you can hear the pop punk influences shining through, but they wrangle harmonies in a way that stands so much higher than most bands, giving it a timeless sound that you can just as easily trace to the Beach Boys as you can some of the more notable power pop bands of the 70s.
I just love everything about this and the only way that I think it could be better is if it was a full length album. Hopefully we'll get one of those sooner than later and in the mean time I have to try to get myself a copy of their first EP from 2015. 2015? I sure hope we don't have to wait another nine years for more Surrender music.
Surrender - Summer Never Comes:
https://watersliderecords.bandcamp.com/album/summer-never-comes
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