Saturday, March 13, 2010

SHRED THE GNAR BRO!



Every now and then I get the special urge to leave the synths and turntables so often heard in todays music behind, crank the speakers up to 11 and do jump kicks off my couch. Fueled by the surf and sunshine of Southern California, The Soft Pack's debut album fulfills just this fever. With only 10 songs and a total listening time of 32 minutes this is a garage rock sprint from start to finish.

The also do a pretty good deadpan cover of Phoenix's "Fence's"

5 comments:

Emily said...

Thanks for turning me onto this site Chip, so many good posts! I can tell I'm going to be spending a lot of time tomorrow at work reading the old ones.

Can we go skating later on this week and "shred the gnar?" ;)

Dave said...

Love this review on LaLa:

"Remember when the Strokes didn't suck? This is like that, only if they'd spent too many nights stoned on a Cali beach..."

CK said...

My pleasure Em. Unfortunately I'm pretty busy this week so I'll have to pass-soon though.

Great review Dave, thanks for posting. As much as I love the high energy on this album, I think arguably the best song is Mexico. You can practically hear the waves drifting up on the beach...

Patty said...

Cool song, nice borderline between being rocker and being mellow. It's great thanks!

Cindy said...

Cool tune. Love the energy.