4KNOTS VIDEO OF THE DAY: “JUNK ESTATE” BY SURFBORT

Who: Heaven, Heaters, Meatbodies, Happyness, Screaming Females, Mikal Cronin, Twin Peaks, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and Super Furry Animals
What: Fifth annual Village Voice 4Knots Music Festival
Where: Pier 84, Hudson River Park, West 44th St. at 12th Ave.
When: Saturday, July 11, general admission $25, VIP $50, 12 noon – 10:00
Why: Anarchy rules on Surfbort’s debut release, October 2014’s R.I.P. Die Old, an update of their March 2014 demo. “This album laughs in the face of the end of the world and gets emotional about the slushie streets,” the Brooklyn punks declare on their Bandcamp site, welcoming people to “dive into a silky sea of decaying dolphins filled with trash as drops of ice-cream run off the cone onto your fingers with the one and only, super teen bobbers from your 2008 wet dreams = *** SURFBORT ***” On such original songs as “Slushie,” “War,” “Suburbia,” and “Blobs” and a cover of the Trashwomen’s “Perversion,” vocalists Dani Miller and Hellena Eisenhart, guitarists Charlotte Wimberley and Matty Birdflu, and drummer Josh Wolpert let it all out with reckless abandon. When you hear Miller spit out “I don’t care about you” on “Junk Estate,” she sure sounds like she means it. Have fun Googling the name of the band, which became an Internet meme after Beyoncé sang “surfboard” that way on “Drunk in Love,” her hit duet with husband Jay-Z. Surfbort claims that R.I.P. Die Old was “recorded in an abandoned animal testing lab on an 8 track,” and we don’t doubt it.