A few years ago I posted about the first full-lenght album by the Beach Boys-obsessed band I'm a member of, Surf School Dropouts. It was called 'Summer is a State of Mind' and came out on vinyl in 2013.
Since then we've been hard a work recording a follow-up and it's finally online.
'Second Nature', available on Bandcamp, itunes and Amazon as of today. It should be up on Spotify and other stream-services shortly.
https://surfschooldropouts.bandcamp.com/album/second-natureI hope some of you guys will check it out and let me know what you think. The album is shock-full of harmonies and original songs with a heavy Beach Boys slant or a nod towards other types of classic pop. We've branched out a bit compared to the debut so there's an attempt at a Motown song (Wonderful Ride), a bit of exotica (Lanikai), beatleseque Power Pop (Should Have Known Better) etc.
Looking back, it's cool to have recorded two albums now with some of my best friends. We basically just started out harmonizing on Beach Boys classics for the fun of it so it's satisfying to see that this initial inspiration led us towards coming up with
and releasing our own stuff....