Album Review: The Drums - The Drums

On their debut EP Summertime, The Drums didn’t display a lot of range beyond closely resembling The Cure or closely resembling the endless collection of bands riding a wave of surf rock resurgence. At first glance, neither of these things mattered because the EP was a perfect evocation of its title and contained one of the more essential slices of summery pop in the form of ‘Let’s Go Surfing’. But EP’s aren’t always built to last, and it soon became as easy to be enamoured with their mannerisms as it was to be irritated by them.

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