The undulating, racing "Willowing" by the five-piece Baltimore / Osaka art rock outfit Surf Harp moves like a parkour team over unknown moving urbanscapes. Vocally / lyrically, it feels irregular too, the band's late 70's proto punkian drawled vox bob and weave, twist and turn, an emotional Rubik's cube trying to find just the right fit but maybe unable to but instead content to live in a mild level of angst. The musical breaks like a synth laden upside down amalgamation of radiohead, kraftwerk and oingo boingo feel properly analog and electronic. A weird orchestra of surreal ideas reflected in a carnival mirror.
-Robb Donker Curtius
From Liner notes:
“Willowing” is the first single from Surf Harp’s latest album, "Language is Lost". The five-piece Baltimore/Osaka art rock outfit readies their third full-length for release in 2023. Following 2018’s Mr. Big Picture, the first taste from Surf Harp’s new album recalls themes the band has previously explored - the mundanity and repetition of selling one’s labor - while turning toward the personal and existential and expanding their sonic and compositional palette.
The music video for “Willowing” was directed, animated, and edited by Surf Harp songwriter/guitarist Jeff Koplovitz, who shot the footage in his neighborhood in Osaka, Japan. The music video features principal songwriters Phil Bolton and Jeff Koplovitz transported into a Japanese Panasonic Word Processor and converted into ascii, where they sing from within a digital wasteland and lament the fragmentation of perspective imposed by modern technology.
“Language is Lost” is out 8/25 via Shiny Boy Press
https://www.instagram.com/surfharp/
https://www.facebook.com/surfharp/
https://surfharp.bandcamp.com/album/language-is-lost
“Willowing” is the first single from Surf Harp’s latest album, Language is Lost. The five-piece Baltimore/Osaka art rock outfit readies their third full-length for release in 2023.
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The music video for “Willowing” was directed, animated, and edited by Surf Harp songwriter/guitarist Jeff Koplovitz, who shot the footage in his neighborhood in Osaka, Japan. The music video features principal songwriters Phil Bolton and Jeff Koplovitz transported into a Japanese Panasonic Word Processor and converted into ascii, where they sing from within a digital wasteland and lament the fragmentation of perspective imposed by modern technology.
“Language is Lost” is out 8/25 via Shiny Boy Press
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https://www.instagram.com/surfharp/
https://www.facebook.com/surfharp/
https://surfharp.bandcamp.com/album/language-is-lost
“Willowing” is the first single from Surf Harp’s latest album, Language is Lost. The five-piece Baltimore/Osaka art rock outfit readies their third full-length for release in 2023.
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