‘Moonlight Sun’ instantly reassures as it lets its rays shine through, setting up the easygoing Windsurf as an ideal road trip companion. Carrying itself by layering spruced-up analogue and spring-cleaned digital, Coastlines is an excursion looped in languid buoyancy. ‘Pocket Check’ has the potential to put springs in steps, as Windsurf happily keep their own counsel while peaking from underneath a tipped sunhat. Retreating to keep contentment on the low makes Judd and Grawe as much in awe of the spells they stir up; certainly when the title track’s cooing synths play hide and seek and then mimic the tide coming in and out. Key to Windsurf’s cleanliness is letting these synths go and explore. Tracks wander and jangle in tiers of full-bodied tumbles, wide-eyed and rapt. Any use of a slide guitar as on the smiling ‘The Big Island’ means idyllic recuperation is a gimme, and partially removing the tempo altogether on the finale ‘Crystal Neon’ gives the feathered layers of keys a free role in soul massage.
There’s a stronger feeling to the growling synth line underscoring ‘White Soweto’, but it’s antagonism that’s a passing scowl quickly ironed out. ‘Future Warriors’ is also a smidgen more strident without becoming obtrusive. Labels of cosmic disco and slo-mo house for Coastlines are slightly off-centre; the techniques and mission statement may not write headlines, but the electronic washes of Windsurf are exemplary, whatever the weather.
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