The Explorers Club, The Carolinian Suite EP
Posted in Blog, Current Faves, Music, Reviews |By Cait Brennan

The Grand Hotel is still under construction . . . but your complimentary suite is ready.
It’s been three years since Charleston, South Carolina’s pop revivalists The Explorers Club released Freedom Wind, a peach of a debut record that sounded for all the world like a Great Lost Beach Boys masterpiece. I’ll never forget the first time I heard that album’s “Last Kiss”—speeding down the 101 through Hollywood, right as the Capitol Records tower came into full view, all sunshine and blue skies and ocean breezes. The perfect soundtrack to a perfect day. Somewhere, Brian Wilson was smiling.
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