Surfer Blood Disappoints on Snowdonia
Surfer Blood’s fourth album, Snowdonia, features an airy pop aesthetic that while playful and innocuous, has a dark, melancholic undercurrent rife with tragedy. You might say that the band’s frontman, John Paul Pitts, mirrors his music’s anatomy quite well. Pitts was charged with domestic violence in 2012 against his then girlfriend, revealing an unhinged savagery…