Beach Fossils

Beach Fossils is the 2010 self-titled debut album, released on May 25, 2010 through Captured Tracks. Dustin Payseur wrote, recorded, and produced it himself^[1], mostly in his Brooklyn apartment^[2].

Critics heard hazy, sun-soaked songs that owed as much to the Beach Boys at their brightest as to Galaxie 500 at their murkiest^[2]. Treblezine linked its day-dreamy warmth to Payseur's homesickness for North Carolina^[3]. Reviews were favorable, and the record is now seen as an early landmark of lo-fi indie pop^[1].