They veer between Khmer pop, film noir soundtrack, surf rock and folky, teenybopper hit parade fare, right out of the late '60s.

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VanWyngarden also says the album was influenced by surf rock.

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Always a musician's musician due to his aptitude for blending his sound a mixture of Tex Mex, blues, surf-rock, jazz and country Cooder appears comfortable in any project he attempts.

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It was like an outlying rock with the water boiling up, streaming over, pouring off, beating round like a rock in the surf to which shipwrecked people cling before they let go only it rose, it sank, it rolled continuously, without respite and rest, like a rock that should have miraculously struck adrift from a coast and gone wallowing upon the sea.

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Customers using HTC's newest flagship smartphone with a mophie juice pack can rock, talk, surf, and send for twice as long with the simple flip of a switch, receiving the benefits of double the battery life on one charge.

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Nada Surf has been plugging away since the mid-'90s, beginning as an alt-rock one-hit wonder (with the novelty song "Popular") and ultimately morphing into a rare creature: an indie-pop band that traffics in uplift and empathy.

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