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Yeah, this was a popular trend about a year ago, with Sun Araw, Wet Hair, Ducktails and all that stuff, which people called "beach pop" or something (and "surf punk" sometimes, for some unexplained reason) but I don't know if it's popular anymore. The whole thing was about them sitting around at the beach and smoking pot, playing guitar/synths/drum machines onto a tape that is subsequently buried in a sand castle, and being lazy. It's kinda like slacker rock but for beach bums, I guess?
The beach is the greatest place in the world, so it's understandable, the only thing that confuses me is when people call Wavves and stuff "surf punk", when there is nothing surfy whatsoever about their sound. I remember checking out Real Estate because someone described them as "surfy" and it just sounded like boring indie crap.
Anyway, that BEST COAST album "Crazy For You" is really cool, as far as recent stuff that seems obsessed with the beach. I mean, it's really really simple, but it's got some neat melodies and simple 60's pop structures.
But yeah, beaches are neat, every Takeshi Kitano film has a beach in it.
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