The Drums are a Brooklyn (rolls eyes) four-piece, and this 7 track EP Summertime (released through Moshi Moshi here in the UK) is alright. So, what do you get for your £0 (obvs because you’ve d/l’d it off some blog)? Very light electronic touches, repetitive basslines and a drum machine-like drum beat, hand claps and reverby effects, high pitched backing vocals, summery melodies redolent of Brian Wilson, precious twee-like sentiments and off the cuff fun, a massive Cure boner, the borecore stylings of Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective, put into straight pop songs.Apart from the attention grabbing, zeitgeist touching, mannered, polo-shirt wearing, indie pop songs - talking about the summertime and surfing ”“ of ‘Let’s Go Surfing’ and ‘Saddest Summer’, there’s ‘Make You Mine’, ‘Submarine’, and ‘I Felt Stupid’, 80s pop-Cure type songs, warbling voice and 80’s production/instruments. The thing with this EP is that it’s just a gesture at the moment, there isn’t anything to truly grab a hold of and say ‘The Drums are about this’ or whatever, it’s too early (the material too scant) to really tell what they’re like. That’s fine, we can appreciate that it is early days and say ‘pleasant enough, now what’s the main course like?’ without it seeming too much of a slight.

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