Surf Rock is Dead - 'Immaculate'
Brooklyn-based duo Surf Rock is Dead (SRiD) reflect on the demise of a relationship on dreamy single, ‘Immaculate’.
Surf Rock is Dead (Joel Witenberg and Kevin Pariso) introduce ‘Immaculate’ with a sense of ease. The track is laidback and moves at a casual pace without ever becoming sluggish and this is a credit to the washed out, balmy, 80s post punk and dream-pop instrumentation, paired with a compelling, atmospheric vocal delivery.
When at its most layered, Surf Rock is Dead immerse their listeners in a blissful soundscape of chiming guitar tones and stuttering percussive rhythms, seeing the song move with warm emotion. At its most stripped, the band show off the rawer side to their instrumentation, with spiky guitar work and soon enough a cerebral bass arrangement that gnaws at the brain nicely.
On the ideas behind the track Surf Rock is Dead explains:
”'Immaculate' was a new approach for SRiD. The sonic textures are more varied than we’d approached in the past. ‘Immaculate’ is like a lyrical stream-of-consciousness flow. In our heads the song is painting a scenario similar to this: The world as we know it is coming to end. You’re with your partner having your last dialogue ever, trying to figure out what the fuck happened and how things could have been different. Everything will be gone soon but those last moments in the present still remain somehow immaculate and pure.”
’Immaculate’ is an expansive and gleaming single taken from Surf Rock is Dead’s debut LP, ‘Existential Playboy ‘ out May 1st.
Words of Karla Harris