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New York's punk-rock combo Surfboart,
fronted by Los Angeles-based singer Dani Miller and featuring
two veterans of Texas' punk scene (drummer Sean Powell and guitarist Alex Kilgore) debuted with the
four-song EPs
Surfbort (2016) in a vein reminiscent of early female-fronted punk-rock bands like
X,
Slits and
X-Ray Spex, notably in
Trash and On a List.
Even better was the effervescent
Back To Reaction on the
four-song EP Bort to Death (2017), with Dave Head on second guitar.
That line-up recorded the 13-minute 17-song Friendship Music (2018),
a collection of
primal punk-rock of the
Ramones and
Sex Pistols brand
(Hi Anxiety,
Trashworld,
White People,
and especially Sunshine).
The music is certainly sincere and energetic, but also repetitive and old-fashioned.
The four-song EP You Don't Exist (2019) was another concentrate of
punk fury, particularly You Don't Exist and
Saturday Night.
relocating to Los Angeles,
the 12-song Keep On Truckin' (2021), better produced by Linda Perry (of 4 Non Blondes fame) with
Matt Picola on second guitar, veered towards a more
melodic power-pop (Big Star and Open Your Eyes), with
rare incursions in the lightning-speed punk-rock of the early days
(basically, just Killed by Food).
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