Blues-tinged garage rock quartet The Surfing Magazines’ latest offering is a slick yet nonchalant whirlwind. ‘New Day’ is tinged with influences, from Bob Dylan’s poetics to Lou Reed’s artistic noise. Of the track, the band state “New Day is a super quick tune. Making this record was a real learning curve in a totally different way of writing and recording. The songs were written quickly and recorded quickly to tape. If you get it wrong that’s just basically on the record.”
Made up of two-thirds of The Wave Pictures (David Tattersall and Franic Rozycki), one half of Slow Club (Charles Watson), and drummer Dominic Brider, the four-piece have enough established artistry between them. With these outside sounds, the band delicately weave garage, surf, blues, and Americana together into a perfectly formidable mishmash.
The band release their self-titled debut album on 1 September via Moshi Moshi. And you can catch The Surfing Magazines live over the next couple of months:
AUGUST
19 – All You Read Is Love, Leytonstone
25-27 – Ramsgate Waves Fest, Ramsgate
31 – Wiltshire, End of The Road Festival
SEPTEMBER
01 – Soup Kitchen, Manchester
02 – Picture House Social, Sheffield
03 – Angel, Nottingham
08 – Portland Arms, Cambridge
09 – West Hill Hall, Brighton
10 – Exchange, Bristol
13 – MOTH Club, London
22 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
23 – Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
24 – Cumberland Arms, Newcastle
Erin Bashford