Kevin Bronson on February 20th, 2015

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Before we get to the catchy new broadside from Surfer Blood: Please somebody send a box of chocolates to Warner Bros. Records. In announcing their back-to-DIY “1000 Palms” (due May 12) on Thursday, Surfer Blood called their time at Warner “frustrating,” saying the new album was made “completely void of the middlemen scrutinizing every bar of previous LP ‘Pythons.'” This came the same week that Nashville rockers JEFF the Brotherhood shouted online: “We, JEFF The Brotherhood, are SO F*CKING PLEASED to announce that we have been DROPPED from the clutches of the demented vulture that is Warner Bros.! We feel as though a heavy weight has been lifted from our shoulders, and could not be more excited.” While we’ve been around long enough to know that things between indie bands and major labels don’t always work out (best of luck, Best Coast), business wrangling often make for fine fodder for songs. Like? Of the new, vocoder-addled song “Dorian,” Surfer Blood’s John Paul Pitts says that it “embraces the anything-goes spirit this record represents.” How did the Florida natives enjoy their time in Los Angeles? “We’re weren’t better off in paradise,” Pitts sings, “all we ever got were parasites.”

||| Stream: “Dorian”