Surfer Blood’s 1000 Palms Coming

SURFER BLOOD RETURN TO DIY ROOTS

WITH NEW ALBUM AND NEW LABEL

1000 PALMS OUT MAY 12 ON JOYFUL NOISE

“The most important part of making this record was not over-thinking it, something we’ve been guilty of in the past.  Instead we mostly ignored matters of length, structure, and instrumentation for the sake of leaving the material as undiluted as possible.” – Surfer Blood

NOISEY PREMIERES NEW TRACK DORIAN

“It’s classic why-we-liked-them-in-the-first-place Surfer Blood—all swoony, plush harmonies, rudimentary drums, and skippy guitars. But there’s a newly minted sophistication in its simplicity too. No standing behind fuzzy effects here; this is clean and deftly delivered.” – NOISEY

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Surfer Blood are back with a new album and new label: 1000 Palms out May 12, 2015 on Joyful Noise.

The band’s third full-length and first release with the acclaimed indie imprint, 1000 Palms marks a return to the band’s DIY ethos. Abandoning the big time studio, the band decided to head back home to self-record and self-produce their third album. Free of major-label-influence, Surfer Blood has delivered a uniquely compelling album, unlike anything in their catalog.

Earlier this week the band treated fans to a preview of the album’s opening track Grand Inquisitor.

Today Surfer Blood reveals a second – and seminal – track from the record Dorian.

Frontman John Paul Pitts describes Dorian as the album’s central point, saying “This song has everything from classic 80’s synth patches to fucked-up vocoder sound collages, embracing a series of left-turns that make it one of the most unique songs in our catalogue. It makes use of almost every sonic element we had available, and embraces the anything goes spirit this record represents.”

The story of 1000 Palms began on January 1^st 2014, after playing a New Year’s show in Portland, OR, the band decided to stick around for the rest of the month, renting a practice space and sorting through a backlog of ideas. By February, as their lease ran out, Surfer Blood had recorded demos for most of the tracks that now feature on their third LP.

After a frustrating time at previous home Warner Brothers, the quartet were beyond ready to return to a more DIY recording process, completely void of the middlemen scrutinizing every bar of previous LP Pythons. With the band self-recording, it was in the glamourous setting of an attic studio above a doctor’s office where drums were committed to tape. Of the work, frontman John Paul Pitts states “fortunately none of us are strangers to DIY recording, so it was a challenge well-suited to our band”.

The making of 1000 Palms also owes a lot to the kindness of friends and family, with the remaining instrument sessions taking place at the home of drummer Tyler Schwartz’s parents while they were on vacation. Following a few days of very little sleep and after the band pooled resources and called in favors, the band had managed to craft everything you now hear on the upcoming record.

1000 Palms tracklisting

Grand Inquisitor

Island

I Can’t Explain

Feast/Famine

Point of No Return

Sabre-Tooth and Bone

Covered Wagons

Dorian

Into Catacombs

Other Desert Cities

NW Passage

1000 Palms is due out May 12^th on Joyful Noise

 Pre-order via iTunes

** Limited VIP vinyl edition of the album (500 hand-numbered copies on green & clear “starburst” vinyl ft. bonus flexi-disc of an album outtake) pre-order via Joyful Noise