Surfer Blood, “Catholic Pagans”

I’ve seen so many bands that sound kind of like Surfer Blood recently—vintage-inspired lo-fi indie pop that sounds like it’s recorded half-underwater—that I may actually have seen them and not known it. That’s not to say that I don’t like the trend, I’m just saying that it’s everywhere, and sometimes I find it difficult to tell the difference between them, Holiday Shores, Real Estate and other similar landscape-inspired bands. The redeeming grace is that it’s good, fun, emminently listenable music. I just wish I could enjoy it on a beach, as was intended, rather than my dreadful morning subway ride (the worst).