Band of the Week: Holiday Shores

You guys should probably get used to hearing a couple of fairly new names around these parts. The first of the names is twosyllable records a somewhat new Brooklyn label that is quickly making a splash by signing up buzzy acts like Bell, New Villager, and That Ghost to make an immediate splash on the indie scene. The other name you may want to know is their latest signee Holiday Shores, a Floridian band that revels like so many do in the lo-fi, reverb drenched sounds that are so prevalent these days. Yes, a lot of people are making sounds like these ones, but it doesn't mean they are all doing it well. Holiday Shores are definitely doing it right though.

Their trippy, poorly recorded sound is dreamy and full of ambient textures that make you feel like you're spending the holiday weekend on the beach. Their name is literal and considering what weekend is upon us it makes a lot of sense to spotlight them this week. Beyond those campy circumstances this band is truly fantastic. Their sound can range from dreamy and slow building to flat out rockers built on pop sensibilities that were stolen from years of listening to the best of the 60's pop rockers. It's the kind of music you can sit and chill to or totally freak out about, I'm kind of doing both right now.

Holiday Shores will be releasing their debut record, the positively amazing Columbus'd The Win. This record is full of tunes that will have you wanting more and more from the young band, and hopefully they will give in and feed us more of these wonderful sounds. Until then we have found a record that will soundtrack the rest of our summer and probably a good portion of our fall and winter!
Holiday Shores - "Phones Don't Feud"
Holiday Shores - "Edge Of Our Lives"
Holiday Shores on MySpace
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