Two minutes. That’s all SONS need to absolutely wreck you.
The Belgian rock quartet are back with Surfin’, a shot of pure adrenaline that captures the dizzy, slightly unhinged feeling of falling head-over-heels for someone — and then disappears before you’ve even processed what hit you. It’s chaotic. It’s joyful. It’s kind of perfect.
Fresh off a 12-date sold-out club tour behind their third album Hallo (out now via [PIAS] Recordings), the Melsele four-piece aren’t slowing down for anyone.
The track itself? It opens with a serrated surf-guitar riff that snaps into a lean, muscular groove — elastic bass, dead-straight drums, zero fat. Then the chorus lands: “Baby, we’re surfin’, so high now” — and honestly, yeah. You feel it. Sweet, slightly manic, and completely addictive.
Just when you think it’s going to burn itself out, an unexpected piano break slides in — glossy, a little strange, giving the whole thing a weird shimmer — before the final blown-out sprint to the finish line. It’s an odd, brilliant little moment that keeps the song from being just another loud rock banger. There’s craft in here.
That craft is no accident. Dave McCracken — the man behind records for Depeche Mode, dEUS, and A$AP Rocky — is back in the producer’s chair, and his fingerprints are all over the way this thing breathes. Tight but alive. Polished but rough around the edges in exactly the right places.
SONS have been on an upward trajectory ever since they broke through via De Nieuwe Lichting on Studio Brussel back in 2018, and Hallo feels like the album where everything clicked into place. Surfin’ is the logical next spike — proof that they’re not just riding momentum, they’re building something.
Surfin’ doesn’t linger. It hits, it lifts, it’s gone — leaving a salt taste and the urge to hit repeat immediately.
Go on then. Listen again.
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