Kevin Bronson on July 11th, 2012

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You can also see the sun glistening off ocean waves in the opening guitar licks of “Slow Days Fast Company,” the new single from L.A. quartet Blonde Summer. It’s been almost two years since Chris Pope and mates released “Eleganza,” a crunchy testament to the fact that ’90s-inclined indie-rock can still sound urgent and fresh. Now comes the follow-up “Slow Daze,” a still-edgy but more psychedelic affair that imagines what Pavement would have sounded like had they grown up in Santa Monica rather than Stockton. Blonde Summer is not all hazy and lazy, as the brutish “Robots on Command” reminds, and you might even detect a “She Don’t Use Jelly” moment. But Blonde Summer is definitely beach … though, thankfully, not beached.

||| Stream: “Slow Days Fast Company”

||| Live: Blonde Summer celebrates its EP release with a show at Origami Vinyl on Aug. 4.

||| Previously: “Silver Jesus,” from “Eleganza”