The Surfing Magazines

Formed in 2017, U.K. garage rock group the Surfing Magazines combine elements of surf-rock, jazz, weird pop, and Americana.

Featuring two members of the Leicestershire-formed <a href="spotify:artist:4MOV18YgNAGUBCJi0MIrHw">Wave Pictures</a> (vocalist and guitarist David Tattersall and bassist Franic Rozycki), alongside the multi-instrumentalist <a href="spotify:artist:0IIPUgyQvA9eRyICwMEOA9">Charles Watson</a> from Sheffield's <a href="spotify:artist:75Kh0eqgzo9f43Dan1JzSV">Slow Club</a>, and drummer Dominic Brider, the band soon signed with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Moshi+Moshi%22">Moshi Moshi</a>. The label had already released albums from both acts, including the 2016 <a href="spotify:artist:4MOV18YgNAGUBCJi0MIrHw">Wave Pictures</a> effort Bamboo Diner in the Rain, and, that same year, the fourth and final <a href="spotify:artist:75Kh0eqgzo9f43Dan1JzSV">Slow Club</a> long-player One Day All of This Won't Matter Anymore. Taking anything from noir fiction to late-'50s/early-'60s European cinema as inspiration for lyrics, the Surfing Magazines entered the studio with fragments of ideas for songs which -- once assembled into completed pieces -- were very quickly committed to tape. This made for a wry, immediate-sounding set -- much closer in tone to that of <a href="spotify:artist:4MOV18YgNAGUBCJi0MIrHw">the Wave Pictures</a>' oeuvre -- that was released as their eponymous debut album in September 2017.

For the next five years, the project went on hiatus. <a href="spotify:artist:0IIPUgyQvA9eRyICwMEOA9">Watson</a> released a post-<a href="spotify:artist:75Kh0eqgzo9f43Dan1JzSV">Slow Club</a> debut solo album in 2018 -- Now That I'm a River -- before stepping away from music for a short time. Meanwhile Rozycki and Tattersall returned to <a href="spotify:artist:4MOV18YgNAGUBCJi0MIrHw">the Wave Pictures</a>, before the latter played lead guitar on no fewer than five 2020 and 2021-issued, <a href="spotify:artist:74ASZWbe4lXaubB36ztrGX">Bob Dylan</a>-inspired albums by <a href="spotify:artist:1kZTgpirZqES4wBVk08d2o">Billy Childish</a>'s <a href="spotify:artist:4ZpBAKcYPYvRqlnyWlKthR">William Loveday Intention</a>. In March 2021, a regrouped Surfing Magazines issued "Sports Bar," a single that nodded to both <a href="spotify:artist:3inCNiUr4R6XQ3W43s9Aqi">Pavement</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1nJvji2KIlWSseXRSlNYsC">the Velvet Underground</a>, and preceded their second LP, Badgers of Wymeswold, which saw the light of day later that year, a full 16 months after it was recorded in Rochester, Essex. ~ Liam Martin & James Wilkinson, Rovi