Safe in the deep end and not too close to shore

Thinking today how nice the sounds of pearl harbor are, especially:
luv goon
California shakedown
slivers of you
http://www.myspace.com/pearlescentharbour

I mean they know what they're doing. Their fotos have the lo-fi, washed-out beach aesthetic that every other album on gorilla v bear's got this year and they're "influenced" by this Dharma Connection video, shot of raging new agers doing yoga around buddha statues and is rife with "visionary art" and Is really good. "Has your guru showed you how to move." This sort of open-your-chakras-brother-eagle-crystal-keeper music/scene totally compliments in my mind the house scene that has continually shaken the vibes and minds of the psychedelically inclined kids of the underground for more than twenty years. Whether it's dancing your body into trance states, churning up your kundalini flow or OMing out after vaporizing some weed, the lyrics of house music and new age tunes similarly, however cheesily articulate those blood flowing(to retire the "warm fuzzies")feelings these experiences induce.
The other video under their site's influences, about Jamaican Rum sum up much of the earnestness and indulgence in having a good time, apparent in the band's(Ted Mulry's Gang)version of cliched Caribbean pop. Truly silly, goofy times on a tropical beach, smoking weed with kids who've grown up reading a lot of alan watts, ram dass and camus,listening to roxy music and dick dale. But back to album.
Wish We Were Here!? I mean pretty perfect. Most of us half halfheartedly wish the same. High achievers in artistic endeavors give a good name to seemingly star-gazing, spaced out girls. I mean no one is present all the time. Why should it be assumed that these personalities are off nowhere, or thinking about ditzy things. I mean fairies and personal dramas factor is some of the time, certainly. But so do metaphysics and the history of the school building I'm sure.
I love almost entirely their weed-loving-lady aesthetic and without trying to use the words lo-fi, fuzzwave or chillwave too much, they've done pretty well rounding up some hypnogogic beach-boys pop hits. I'm not too sure yet why surf guitar has impregnated new wave/no wave so much these last few years but its romantic and dreamy. Maybe until these nice young ladies have more songs out it is best that they leave the precariously cool idea of their vibe playing through the ears, ever changing from listen to listen, allowing for more mutable mellow emotions, an idea its seems that is what a lot of this is all about (please see Genesis P-Orridge's ideas on constant progression of self toward no fixed point), instead of letting those sweet beach waves stagnate in the tide pool of too much rigid visual exposure.