Cayucas: NPR Music Field Recordings

If you've ever been poolside on a hot day, you know what it's like to have your senses bombarded with leisure; to feel the sun radiating and shimmering off everything around you. Watch the first few moments of this Field Recording, with its bobbing inner tubes and lounging vacationers, and you can practically smell the spots where chlorine meets concrete. We filmed the band late one morning at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs - a setting that also produced an eager dancer, assorted rubberneckers and one particularly agreeable dog. All in all, perfect surroundings in which to re-create the laconic pop-rock of the California band Cayucas.
Sitting poolside on a picnic table, the band performed its bittersweet single "High School Lover" with only an acoustic guitar and light percussion for accompaniment. In any form, the song isn't all sunshine - its youthful nostalgia gets filtered carefully through the prism of regret - but this performance is plenty bright, as Cayucas' members locate their best-known song's laid-back heartbeat. "High School Lover" provides a perfect soundtrack to the shimmery leisure that surrounds the band on all sides here. But it also leaves room on the agenda for hints of sadness and sunburn.-- STEPHEN THOMPSON
Watch Cayucas perform in another California setting -- indoors this time, for KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic.
www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb...
CREDITS
Featuring: Christian Koons, Casey Wojtalewicz, Banah Winn, Ben Yudin, Zach Yudin
Producers: Saidah Blount, Mito Habe-Evans, Collin Walzak
Videographers: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo, Mito Habe-Evans, Saidah Blount
Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait
Special Thanks: Ace Hotel Palm Springs
Executive Producers: Anya Grundmann, Keith Jenkins

[@MrRiptape]

love that dude dancing in the back having a great time lol !

[@RedroomStudios]

that was just so chilled out and enjoyable! fun setting and a beautiful day to capture this performance on video... just discovered these guys today and I'm totally digging their vibe!

[@IqbalHamid]

They have a very 60s feel to their music. Love 'em!

[@SlaughterHouseism]

I go to to that resort all the time with my family.

[@WGBHMusic]

Love the steadicam action following the dancing groovemeister.

[@stylesdangerfield]

The dancing dude. Yes.

[@ParrotProduction]

God fucking bless that guy dancing and just feeling the music.

[@evrydae]

Mr. Skinny jeans, you do it like no other.

[@JeremyRobak]

Way to lay the beat, Casey. Feel good flow.

[@TheLittleLucii]

lovelovelove

[@davidkeizer8353]

go brother go!!

[@abegetsbuckwild]

this is filmed at the ace hotel. nice

[@jkjarrell2579]

dancing jesus gets it

[@ddAdmire]

Love them. though they kind of look like Mormon Missionaries. Clean cut boys who make great music.

[@evrydae]

you juss don't know which Mr. Skinny jeans i was referring to.

[@asherwolf1224]

Didn't know The Dude could dance like that!

[@mgreen19]

Damn it's Carl from Workaholics!

[@NotStuart]

Anyone else notice the Leon Karssen shirt? :=)

[@jumpingforjordan1]

They need sun screen.

[@jordanas3011]

weezer

[@jn5377]

the lead singer looks like the lead singer from the drums

[@Mahavishnu80]

was about to turn off when saw hipsters. Stayed for great music.

[@angelzambranamusic]

vaya tela los peinaditos... jajaja

[@azzarough]

who's cloning these musicians?

[@Axiom8Love]

Today's beach boys

[@764amc08]

Hipster scientists?

[@BeatkidsBerlin]

Sounds ok, but "Coolnessfaktor wie ein Gartentraktor !" BEATKIDS Berlin, Germany

[@St4rforce]

5 stoned people here. :p

[@Mast3rBruc31]

you forgot to count the dancer

[@BuriBuriify]

Nice try, Beck.

[@TWC15HK]

That's a terrible looking pickguard.