Surf City are a

space rock Space rock is a music genre characterized by loose and lengthy song structures centered on instrumental textures that typically produce a hypnotic, otherworldly sound. It may feature distorted and reverberation-laden guitars, minimal drummin ...

/ shoegaze/

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band from

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about ...

, New Zealand.

History

Surf City was formed in 2004 in Mt Roskill,

. Attention for the band quickly spread overseas, and they were picked up by notable label

Morr Music Morr Music is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1999 by Thomas Morr. Most artists on the label fall into the categories of intelligent dance music, electronica and dreampop, but all reflect Thomas Morr's person ...

for U.S and German distribution. Music website Stereogum tapped them as a "jangling, uptempo but melancholic form of shoegaze pop". They released a self-titled EP in 2008, a full-length album ''Kudos'' on

Fire Records Fire Records was an American independent record label, set up in 1959 by Bobby Robinson. Amongst others, it released records by Lightnin' Hopkins, Elmore James, Buster Brown and Arthur Crudup. At one point it was thought Fire had issued the la ...

in 2010, and another album in 2013 entitled '' We Knew It Was Not Going to Be Like This''. Their final release was the 2015 album, ''Jekyll Island''.{{Cite web, url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/jekyll-island-mw0002828632, title=Jekyll Island - Surf City {{! Songs, Reviews, Credits {{! AllMusic, publisher=AllMusic, access-date=2018-09-10

Discography

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Arch Hill Recordings Arch Hill Recordings, formerly Arch Hill Studios, is a New Zealand recording studio and record label in Auckland. It was founded in 1998. Artists include David Kilgour, The Clean, The Bats, Don McGlashan, Bachelorette, The Boxcar Guitars, Lu ...

, - , 2010 , ''Kudos'' , Arch Hill Recordings,

, - , 2013 , '' We Knew It Was Not Going to Be Like This'' , Fire Records , - , 2015 , ''Jekyll Island'' , Fire Records

References

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