Ears Wide Open: Sun Room

Kevin Bronson on January 11th, 2023

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When we first were introduced to Sun Room last July, the setting could not have been more idyllic: It was the independent North Beach Boogie, a weekend festival a Frisbee toss away from San Clemente’s North Beach. The second-day headliners, Sun Room looked like the four frontrunners at a casting call for (lowercase) beach boys. Fresh-faced, smiling and charismatic, they played darned near every song in their catalog (as of today, there are 12) as if they invented garage-rock and their equally fresh-faced followers needed to be converted to its gospel.

Of course, their sunny, scratchy, surfy sound has been around since the ’60s, and a new generation seems open to it. Not yet three years old, Sun Room — Luke Asgian, Ashton Minnich, Max Pinamonti and Gibby Anderson, all of whom grew up in coastal towns — has already toured on three continents, had songs placed in TV shows and racked up enviable numbers for their top singles.

Their third EP, “Outta Their Minds,” is arriving soon, and “Cadillac” is the new single. Imagine if instead of faux-badass guys in leather jackets, the Strokes were approachable lads in wetsuits.

“‘Cadillac’ is a rambunctious garage-rock jam about being too broke for a girl,” Asgian says. “It’s short and sweet with unhinged vocals and guitars, reminiscent of early ’60s British Invasion bands. The song is exciting, fast, and intentionally unpolished — especially the unruly outro that seems to go about 200 miles per hour.”

||| Stream: “Cadillac”