The Versatile Excellence of Peach Pit’s Debut Album, “Being So Normal”, Warrants Greater Appreciation in the Overpopulated Indie Genre

You click on the Indie section of your Spotify Browse page and are met with several playlists curated by Spotify employees to match any kind of subgenre, mood, or occasion you can think of, all still falling within the Indie genre: French Indie Pop, Dreamy and Distorted, or A Love Letter. Within all of these different obscure playlists consisting of anywhere from 30 to 120+ songs each are also different artists to be discovered — so many that you couldn’t possibly get to know each one’s discography and sustain a well-balanced life at the same time. In today’s expansive music world with an abundance of new up-and-coming artists cropping up in various genres, numerous individuals and bands deserving of audiences are often neglected by most mainstream listeners.

One such band is Indie pop band, Peach Pit. Often characterized as being a part of a sad California surf sub-genre of Indie music, the band is considered together with other artists like Mellow Fellow, Gus Dapperton, or Wallows. But despite their beachy sound, the four-man band hails from Vancouver, Canada and consists of lead vocalist/guitarist Neil Smith, guitarist Chris Vanderkooy, bassist Peter Wilton, and drummer Mikey Pascuzzi. Initially founded by Smith and Vanderkooy in high school, the band released its debut EP, Sweet FA, in May 2016.