Idiot Grins hit a hole in one with their new album Golf Cart Life — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
How many genres can you hug with your musical arms? The expansive new collection of songs from Idiot Grins casts a wide and passionate mosaic of sounds, with elements of rock ’n’ roll, psychedelia, Americana, R&B and classic soul music. They are without a doubt a prolific and continuously inspired unit, defying expectations with each release. Golf Cart Life sums up this rebllious group with devlish glee.
Album opener Hell No is a great example of the band’s approach: A song organically grown from a single seed. Flip Flop is fair to categorize as a classic Idiot Grins song, made up of real rock ’n’ roll with a not-so-serious smile. The raucious Riff 24 is “simple rock ’n’ roll that is just more enjoyable to play and listen to than complicated rock,” they say, adding that it’s “a song about RFK, his mom, and his son.” And album closer The End Of Everything is “a campfire singalong ghost story.”
Idiot Grins are a rock and soul band from Oakland. They have released six albums, starting with Quarry from 2012, Big Man from 2015 and 2017’s State Of Health featuring The Byrd Sisters. State Of Health featured the Top 10 digital radio hit Get Busy Dying and Top 20 digital radio hit Take it Back.
In 2020, they released Thoughts & Prayers in, a reinterpretation of The Louvin Brothers’ 1959 country-gospel album Satan Is Real — including the songs Satan is Real, The Christian Life and The Angels Rejoiced. Hounds of Mess Around was released in2024. The lead single, Not Reggae, reached No. 3 on the Digital Radio Tracker Independent Chart and No. 30 on the Rock Chart.
Check out Golf Cart Life below, and get in the game with Idiot Grins on their www.idiotgrins.com.
