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Surfaces SWEAR Their Surf Pop Sound Was Actually Inspired By Country · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Surfaces, who blew up
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  Speaker 1: last year with their global hit Sunday Best, are pure
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  Speaker 1: blooded Texas boys, although people don't often think that when
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  Speaker 1: they hear their music. In fact, they're often mistaken for
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  Speaker 1: being from California thanks to their tunes easy going to
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  Speaker 1: beachy vibes, but the duo says if you listen closely,
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  Speaker 1: you'll hear Texas in their music. Colin from Surfaces explains
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  Speaker 1: to songwriter Universe, we grew up around a lot of
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  Speaker 1: country music in Texas. The one thing we got from
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  Speaker 1: that was that country revolves around big hooks, so that
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  Speaker 1: influenced our song. Obviously, once we had the beats, melody
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  Speaker 1: and the instrumentation down, we wanted to grab that big
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  Speaker 1: hook and make people remember it and feel it. So
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  Speaker 1: country definitely rubbed off on us. You can hear the
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  Speaker 1: influence in their latest, the summer centric Wave of You,
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  Speaker 1: which is out now. That's Direct from Hollywood