Albums
Columbus'd the Whim
2009
Genre: Alternative
Release Date: 2009
By David Bevan
Reviewed September 28, 2009
With a name like Holiday Shores, you'd guess this Florida group is part of 2009's fuzzed-out, beach-party vibe. You'd be right.
We've been experiencing a serious boom time for beach music. Because we're talking about indie rock and not say, green energy, that feels like a particularly weird thing to write. Even so, if you read/live on the Internet, too, chances are you've noticed a deluge of dudes taking aim at bringing beach times to your headphones year round. Just by name alone: Wavves brought us bummers, Surfer Blood are sharing huge uppers, and the Underwater Peoples label in D.C. as a whole specializes almost exclusively in Coppertoned escapism/aesthetics. Holiday Shores (formerly Continental Divide) are a Tallahassee five-piece that re-named their band after the Florida street on which lead vocalist Nathan Pemberton grew up. Florida underlined.