A few weeks ago I came across this "Philly via New Jersey outfit," as it reads on the band's Bandcamp from some website or another (forgive me, for I have forgotten the exact one). At first, because we refuse not to be visceral and analytic of the most basic premises, the "Kicks" part in Vintage Kicks immediately shot headway to "Pumped Up Kicks," a song so dogged in modern rock popularity that anything within it's idea peripheral forms to auto-assimilate.
Lucky us, Vintage Kicks aren't Foster the People.The band's debut album King Geek, which you download in entirety for free off the aforementioned Bandcamp page, teeters on the thin blue line of casually friendly surf-rock (the band describes the sound on the page as "The Darker Side of Surf," after all). But the soft-play gimmick isn't terrifically overwhelming despite the succinct keyboard allusiveness on tracks like "Iron Fist." Call it a demographic of accessible punk for those who still yearn for discernible melody.
Also, because we're friends, check out the group's Facebook page too.
, which is receiving enormous critical acclaim, 
