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Astro Coast

album by Surfer Blood

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ4811498 ↗
Source-derived summary

Astro Coast is the debut album by American indie rock band Surfer Blood. It was released January 19, 2010, on Kanine Records.

Astro Coast received very positive reviews. The album peaked at number 124 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Track listing

Personnel

Surfer Blood

John Paul Pitts – vocals, guitar, string arrangements, engineering, production

Thomas Fekete – guitar, vocals

Tyler Schwarz – drums

Brian Black – bass, vocals

Additional personnel

Kevin Williams – guitar (track 3)

Freddy Schwenk Sr.

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The public source identifies “Astro Coast” as album by Surfer Blood. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Astro, Coast and album.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Astro, Coast and album providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4811498. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Astro Coast” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.