Indie Rock’s hype-to-backlash machine has such an impressively quick turnaround that it’s a wonder Palm Beach, Florida’s native sons Surfer Blood even had a chance to release their debut record. The band quickly gained critical acclaim following an impressive showing at this year’s CMJ festival with a raw, muscular and distinctly noir-ish take on ‘90s indie power pop. Comparisons to Weezer trail the band, but Astro Coast contains so much more than a retread of the Blue Album’s tropes. John Paul Pitts, the band’s singer-guitarist-mastermind has crafted an enduring classic with this record, one of those ten-song shitkickers that’s made to roll on repeat in car stereos at high volume. The guitars land with a propulsive thump on the album’s opener “Floating Vibes” and then proceed to weave delicate little melodies around Pitt’s reverb-soaked vocals. From the towering, fist-pumping crunch of “Swim” to the sparse, delicate dub of “Harmonix,” Surfer Blood is not afraid to let the guitars do the talking. Every song on Astro Coast contains a memorable riff, the kind that will have you have you whistling at inopportune moments throughout your day. “Take it Easy” layers agile percussive guitars over skittering Afro-pop rhythms to create a dance floor anthem with an undercurrent of darkness that seems to pervade even Astro Coast’s most bombastic pop hits. Dirgelike “Slow Jabroni” serves as the apex of this depression, the soundtrack to a 3am realization that everything has gone slowly, horribly awry. Astro Coast stands as one of the more promising debuts in recent memory.