![]() ![]() The constancy of the style creates a suspicion about whether – at thirty-one minutes – there are quite enough ideas to support a full album. ![]() ‘A Summer Thing’ matches jaunty hooks with lonely sentiments (“Now you’re watching the rain fall by yourself from your bedroom window / I’ll be checking the mailbox for the postcards that you said you’d send”), adding a twist of heartache to what might have been just mucking about in the shallows. The Beach Boys didn’t sing about being gauche in love in this setting, the songs suggest the missteps and insecurities of the beautiful people. ![]() Lines like these signal a lack of solemn intent, though they give way to wistful futility soon afterwards. Careless happiness is introduced on the bouncingly energetic opener ‘Cayucos’, while ‘High School Lover’, distilling the band’s essence most effectively, offers “See, ever since I saw you on the back of some guy’s bicycle I’ve been feeling kind of so-so”. That they also avoid the suspicious wash of Instagrammed retro is partly attributable to lyrics that surpass expectations by being both romantic and consciously silly, adding more than a splash of irony to any too cool for surf school attitude. Excepting the lethargic last bars of ‘Will “The Thrill”‘, Cayucas convey the summer sun with heys rather than haze. Dandy gradations of guitar and drums, layers of twiddled percussion with chimes and chants, oohs and ehs, create a happy-clappy, stutteringly dulcet melee.Īt its best, Bigfoot could be the San Luis Obispo County equivalent of Metronomy’s The English Riviera, transporting the average urbanite to a sunny coastal clime with skipping insouciance. Alongside vintage vinyl samples, a spectrum of influences from Beach Boys and The Tornadoes to Local Natives and Vampire Weekend bubble under and boil over to varying degrees. Bigfoot sounds like sixties surf rock refracted through an indie-pop prism and it isn’t a trick of the light. The band wear their influences on short sleeves without subtle gestures or sleights of hand. The Cayucos, CA native’s surf-inspired debut features songs that first caught waves under his previous recording moniker – Oregon Bike Trails – but have been reworked and reheated with Yudin helming a five-piece band for debut album Bigfoot. Zach Yudin, the main man behind Secretly Canadian signees Cayucas, has bided his time well. ![]()
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