BROCKHAMPTON approved Vanillaroma burnout on slick new cut "Buzzkill Bummer"

"Pickpocket", the previous single from Californian group Vanillaroma who place themselves South of LA and North of San Diego, was supported by BROCKHAMPTON earlier this year and introduced on the group’s YouTube channel with a video titled This Is Vanillaroma.

"Buzkill Bummer", the follow up single, is a similar swathe of jangling guitars and sung-spoken lyrics that have an air of Pavement in their intonation and warped self-deprecation. "Take me to the other side, where grass is green and trees fall amplified, and I can finally get some sleep at night. And I don't have to try and you won't be dissatisfied, with all my lies and everything I look like," rhythmically drawls the lead vocal.

There’s not much out there about Vanillaroma. They released debut album I Love This Dream to little pick-up in February, but the support shown by BROCKHAMPTON has helped lift the band, YouTube comments suggesting a historic link with Kevin Abstract. "Pickpocket" has since picked up over half a million streams.

Newest offering "Buzzkill Bummer" could be a flash out of the 90s, full of flannel shirts, shimmering guitars, dissonance and teenage despair. The snare unfurls, the guitars grow and the lead vocal is a despondent diary entry. "See, it don't feel like summer, overcast and I'm sad 'cause you said I should lose your number. And I ain't no runner, marathon, I'm a side ache, shin splint, past tense regret."

Off the back of a summer lost to a pandemic, wildfires and recession, the song bears extra weight. Summer 2020 was the ultimate buzzkill, but at least this single can help sound out the final drowsy nights.