There is no mistaking Hollywood-based, indie-rock duo Kimmy Drake and Skylar Black’s affection for sunny fun at the shore: Onstage they call themselves Beach Day. And while their second album, “Native Echoes,” due out on Kanine Records filled with trademark retro surf guitar, tumbling waves and plenty of esprit de bikini, it also seems to take a few steps inland, toward the city, where the music picks up chunks of garage-rock grit and Drake’s vocal becomes more soulful and self-assured. It is an evolution that makes the follow-up to last year’s critically lauded debut, “Trip Trap Attack,” such an exciting album. “Native Echoes” clearly benefits from having Detroit garage-rock pioneer Jim Diamond producing in his Ghetto Recorders studio, famous for vintage analog recording equipment that has helped crunch the sound of the White Stripes, the Dirtbombs and others.
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