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New Zealand band Surf City's forthcoming album We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This continues their love affair with psychedelic, reverb-swathed guitar pop, drawing from their Flying Nun forefathers The Clean and The Chills, as well as the fuzzed-up dream pop of The Jesus and Mary Chain and the loopy noise of Animal Collective. This time round the songwriting is stronger, the tunes are hookier and the sound is even more lush.

 Named after a random snippet of overhead conversation in a crowded South Korean bar, We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This captures a haze of broken connections, isolation in the belly of the city. Recorded in snippets from different corners of the world - New Zealand, New York and South Korea - this is their second to be released via London label Fire Records.


Nieuw-Zeeland
Rock
Label: Fire


1. It's A Common Life
 2. I Had The Starring Role
 3. Song From A Short-lived TV Series
 4. NYC
 5. Claims Of A Galactic Medium
 6. No Place To Go
 7. I Want You
 8. Oceanic Graphs Of The Wilderness
 9. What Gets Me By