New Music: Surf Rock is Dead – Immaculate

With their debut album Existential Playboy already up for pre-order, Surf Rock is Dead (Joel Witenberg and Kevin Pariso) have followed up recent single Diabolik with the lush and pristine Immaculate. Listen to the track below.

The song takes the shoegaze, jangleppop, and post-punk elements of Diabolik but constructs them somewhat differently. It shares the same lightness of touch, as well as the driving, pulsating feel of their previous single. But here, the warmth in the lyrics and arrangement are more to the fore, resulting in a sense of floating on emotions rather than being driven by them. The vocals and lead guitar add energy and direction to each moment, focusing the listener’s attention on the lyrics and melody.

The duo says about the track: “Immaculate was a new approach for SRiD. The sonic textures are more varied than we’d approached in the past. Immaculate is like a lyrical stream-of-consciousness flow. In our heads the song is painting a scenario similar to this: The world as we know it is coming to an end. You’re with your partner having your last dialogue ever, trying to figure out what the fuck happened and how things could have been different. Everything will be gone soon but those last moments in the present still remain somehow immaculate and pure”.

Surf Rock is Dead are active on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, so be sure to check them out and find out more about them and their music.  Existential Playboy is due out on the 1^st of May.

Photo by Michael Cooper