Remember Belle and Sebastian and the ’60s and San Francisco coffee houses? Remember fading out into evocative music sensibilities and not questioning the source but grooving in the synchronicity of craft and maker? Interested in being taken back to that labyrinth? Look no further than the likes of The Blank Tapes. 

The California trio was once singularly and will always remain as the brainchild of Matt Adams. In 2003 he was a young man from Southern California’s suburbs, playing each instrument in his non-traveling band and recording original track among track with ease. Two years later, he moved to the Bay Area where the locals fell in love with his natural musicianship. 

Fast forward to 2010 – the year that brought that pivotal shift for the longhaired rocker. Brazil got a hold of Adams and his breakout magic and thus Adams found himself in the midst of his first international tour. Then a friend used his original tracks for cult surf film Stoked and Broke and brought The Blank Tapes to Japan to tour alongside the film. 

The Blank Tapes then began work on this years full-length debut album Vacationer via Antenna Farm Records, a stout and mighty debut that features the likes of his leading lady Pearl Charles on drums and the extraordinary D.A. Humphrey’s on bass.

This California trio are just in time for the summertime bringing forth the quintessential groove that screams there’s-heat-in-the-air and I-wanna-be-in-it. The album’s three part harmonies are full of a new potent energy, one we haven’t quiet seen before and comes forth in glorious summer light. 

After touring much of North America the first half of this year, The Blank Tapes are taking a hiatus from California and are hitting up their favorite coast spots until the end of August. 

Jump to two weeks ago, where the trio met up in Atlanta to record new tracks for a friends upcoming film (we caught the sessions and with God as our witness, we continue to draft colorful nightly dreams with these tracks as the sonic soundtrack of our sleep) The Blank Tapes are true – fully engulfed in the flames of their music and let-life-ride sensibilities, this band is burning a new path for the youthful at heart. With no agenda but to make good and lasting music, it is clear The Blank Tapes will be around.