Artist: Surfer Blood Review: Florida's Surfer Blood idealize Nineties alternative rock the way Seventies punks idealized Fifties rock & roll: as a tangible past just distant enough for them to misremember in awesome new ways. Pavement noise scrimmages, warped Pixies surf rock, fresh-faced Weezer tuneage, it's all the same mess to them. But they dress up their guitar-mad escapades in a stadium-echo kick that Nineties indie kids were too grumpy to try. "Swim" is the monster riff-geek odyssey, complete with an Afro-pop breakdo... Rating: 3.5 Stars

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