Former buzz band Surfer Blood have had a rough couple of years, with frontman John Paul Pitts getting mixed up in a domestic battery case and the band getting dropped from Warner. Now, they are moving on by signing to Joyful Noise/Fierce Panda and preparing their third album, 1000 Palms, for release on May 12.
Work on the album began on January 1, 2014, when the band rented a practice space in Portland and spent a month demoing. After that, they self-recorded drums in an attic studio and captured the rest of the instruments at home.
This DIY approach was, according to a statement from the band, "Completely void of the middlemen scrutinizing every bar of [2013's sophomore LP] Pythons." The result is apparently "bit more bruised since the innocent take off of [the 2010 debut] Astro Coast."
Scroll past the tracklist below to hear opening cut "Grand Inquisitor." The single "Dorian" is expected to premiere today.
1000 Palms:
1. Grand Inquisitor
2. Island
3. I Can't Explain
4. Feast / Famine
5. Point of No Return
6. Sabre-Tooth and Bone
7. Covered Wagons
8. Dorian
9. Into Catacombs
10. Other Desert Cities
11. NW Passage
Work on the album began on January 1, 2014, when the band rented a practice space in Portland and spent a month demoing. After that, they self-recorded drums in an attic studio and captured the rest of the instruments at home.
This DIY approach was, according to a statement from the band, "Completely void of the middlemen scrutinizing every bar of [2013's sophomore LP] Pythons." The result is apparently "bit more bruised since the innocent take off of [the 2010 debut] Astro Coast."
Scroll past the tracklist below to hear opening cut "Grand Inquisitor." The single "Dorian" is expected to premiere today.
1000 Palms:
1. Grand Inquisitor
2. Island
3. I Can't Explain
4. Feast / Famine
5. Point of No Return
6. Sabre-Tooth and Bone
7. Covered Wagons
8. Dorian
9. Into Catacombs
10. Other Desert Cities
11. NW Passage