The Drums 81 <B>Label:</B> Moshi Moshi Records <B>Release date:</B> 11/10/09 <B>Website:</B> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thedrumsforever">http://www.myspace.com/thedrumsforever</a> Repetitive and irritating, or the catchiest thing you’ve ever heard? It’s a tough choice that I’m still making for myself, but <b>The Drums</b>’ <i>Summertime!</i> EP is relentlessly fun and frantic to the point that it’s all a little juvenile, stuffed with whistling, handclaps, simple drum beats, bass parts that sound like they’re made by a children’s toy and songs about surfing and stuff. You’d have to have a heart made of stone, or have no patience with forced-kooky post-punk influenced indie pop, to not warm to at least one moment on <i>Summertime!</i>, whether it’s the soft female vocals that come in to duet on ‘Don’t Be A Jerk, Johnny’, or the fingerclicking breakdown that accompanies it, the Young Folks-up-to-11 intro of ‘Let’s Go Surfing’, or the awesomely cheesy synth stabs on opener ‘Saddest Summer’. Then there’s the airy fuzz of closer ‘Down By The Water’, the one place where the EP finally slows down. Otherwise, things are non-stop stupidly danceable. I dare you not to like it. <B>Rating:</B> 7/10 2009-11-02T10:59:49Z The Drums - Summertime EP 1262 The Drums - Summertime EP image/jpeg original_The Drums - Summertime EP.jpg 22743 true 2009-10-11T00:00:00Z 2 2010-02-09T15:51:52Z 470