Florida Water Blues - Twisted Teens (2026)
I dunno. I’ve deleted and restarted this writeup like four times already.
You start off with a jangle rock sort of guitar figure in Why Did You Miss It?, but it quickly tears off into noisy punk territory. Then you think it’s a punky sort of angry record, but you get the moody and thoughtful Gaslight-Anthem-style lyrical atmosphere of Swamp. It sometimes sounds like dumb garage rock fun, but then you get a track like Concealed Weepin’ that’s just a bit more brainy than you’d expected. Then you get hit with Riding, a lo-fi twist on 80s synth rock that’s way better than it should be. Javelina even gives you a Springsteen vocal impression on top of a more conventional chugging rock track.
This is mostly just a band who has a great time doing whatever they want, adding as many sounds as they can while keeping to a simple lo-fi garage palette.
