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From Surf Friends formation in early 2009 songs have flowed blending the early indie sounds of Flying Nun bands such as The Clean with new experimental waves of No Age and Deerhunter. Surf Friends are driving a new alternative sound. Surf Friends are Brad Coley (guitar, vocals, keys, harmonica, drum machine), Pete Westmoreland (bass, keys, backing vocals). A band with a massive sound and drum machine tracks, Surf Friends has often been compared to Joy Division and New Order. No show is the same as the band embraces the feel of the live experience through their reverberating guitars and bass, synth keyboard tracks and looped samples. After recently releasing their self-titled EP that took the lads to Wellington, Surf Friends followed it up with a full national tour in December 2009 with American band The Black Watch. The band is currently recording new songs for an upcoming release and playing shows in various towns. For fans of ...... The Clean, No Age, Deerhunter and New Order. Check these guys out! Here's a link to the latest video for 'I Tried' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi8oJpmItgI&feature=youtube_gdata_player Surf Friends were recently interviewed on National Radio. It's an interview that captures the Friends in a playful mood and is a good insight into their personalities. http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/nrmtalk/surf_friends Check Surf Friends out on my space: http://www.myspace.com/surffriends |
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PT104: Surf Friends - Confusion (CD Album) 2010 1.Goals 2.Late Night 3.You're On My Mind 4.No Oil 5.Edmund 6.Rask 7.I Iried 8.Are You There 9.Human 10.Wild Animals 11.Enjoy The Show 12.Confusion
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SGS009: Surf Friends - Edmund (CD/EP) Powertool 2010 1.Edmund 2.I Wanted To Tell You 3.No Reply |
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SGS008: Surf Friends - Human (CD/EP) 2010 1.Human 2.Love Everything 3. Enjoy The Show |
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SGS006: Surf Friends - Your On My Mind (CD/EP) 2010 1.Your On My Mind 2. Feeling Of My Heart 3.Go |
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SGS005: Surf Friends - I Tried (CD/EP) 2010 1.I Tried 2.Life With You (Remix) 3.You Get To Me (Reprise) |
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PT094: Surf Friends (CD/EP) Powertool 2009 1.Life With You 2.You Get To Me 3.Small Things 4.Moonshines Tonight |
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| ELSEWHERE: Auckland two-piece Surf Friends -- guitarist/singer/drum machine handler etc and bassist/keyboards/singer Pete Westmoreland -- are starting out in almost exactly the same place as the early Clean and Chills whose sound they effectively hijack completely for some tracks on this interesting . . . and eventually quite convincing album. Produced by Mark Howden -- who keeps things effectively straight-forward to capture their energy -- the album kicks in with Goals ("How I want to achieve my goals") and if one of them was an album that first recalled early Flying Nun but eventually left an original taste, then they've succeeded. It is in the material that isn't Clean-reference (on Late Night and especially You're On My Mind with a Tally Ho! keyboard part you could be fooled) where they really score: the 10 minute title track at the end notably. They get out on the periphery with No Oil, an edgy moan over a drone which sounds like experimental outfits like Chrome and Suicide -- alternately they have a barely-there, plaintive "ballad" Rask which is like an antipodean Velvet Underground/genial Lou Reed. And even though Humans is a Clean piece of pop, it has its own charm. Enjoy the Show sounds like David Kilgour sitting in with Flying Lizards. Certainly there is too much here which follows well-trodden paths, but there is also more than enough hints and suggestions of various possible directions that you may conclude these two - in some form or other -- are going to be worth watching. Graham Reid http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/music/3722/surf-friends-confusion-sf/ |
| PORKY'S PRIME CUTS: Surf Friends (not to be confused with another Kiwi band, Surf City) have only been around since early 2009 but haven’t been sitting on their rears, releasing an EP and four CD singles – that’s right CD singles, not downloads. The Lowdown: These Friends are not shy about their influences – in the press release they joyfully profess to blending the “early indie sounds of Flying Nun bands … with new experimental waves of No Age and Deerhunter”. Listening to Flying Nun re-releases all day is a worthwhile occupation and it’s a fairly obvious influence on Confusion with You’re on My Mind in particular sounding very much like The Clean, but there’s also the early 80s rough-around-the edges pre-Blue Monday atmosphere of New Order coming through. While their influences are of a generation ago, that doesn’t mean to say the Friends are retro-obsessed; there’s a freshness to this marriage of the past and the present, and an emphasis on moving things forward, as much as they can. Craig Haggis: http://craighaggis.wordpress.com/ |