ABSTRACT
The term sofa surfing makes a certain type of homelessness look acceptable, even cool, and such an idea is frequently conveyed by Sofa Surfers' songs. The 'surfing' in the band's name also implies continuous movement: old-style moving of one's body in a physical space but with extra speed, as in windsurfing, and more contemporary virtual travel: surfing the internet. In contrast to the bulk of artists included, there is a number of music videos in Sofa Surfers' portfolio. Sofa Surfers fit the post-rock formula because of its abandoning of the verse-chorus-verse structure in favour of the soundscape and its ideology. Post-rock mean bands that use guitars but in nonrock ways, as timbre and texture rather than riff and powerchord. The fourth album by Sofa Surfers has both a simple title and a simple cover, with the title Sofa Surfers put diagonally on a red surface. Musically Superluminal leans more towards soul and dub than techno.
