By Bowling Stoned

“Dude, this is fkn incredible music Dave. You make some good music bro. 🤙🏻🔥🤙🏻”
– Ryan King, listener feedback

Dave Cornblum’s Summer Sounds Pound EP is a sleek, soulful ride through the heat, haze, and emotional high tide of summer 2025. Across three distinct but connected tracks—“Summer Sounds Pound,” “It’s Your New Life,” and “High Tide”—Cornblum delivers music that doesn’t just play in the background; it lingers, pulses, and evolves as the days stretch on.

The EP opens with “Summer Sounds Pound,” a smoky blend of late-night vibes and existential swagger. With lyrics like “Yeah I see high, speaking through my third eye,” Cornblum captures the disorientation and elevation of being alive and self-aware in chaotic times. It’s psychedelic but grounded, like a barefoot drive down Pacific Coast Highway at golden hour.

“It’s Your New Life” follows with a sense of optimistic clarity—an anthem for personal rebirth. There’s a gentler propulsion here, built on melodic repetition and layered vocals that speak less to resolution and more to emergence. It feels like waking up for the first time in a long time and realizing something in you has shifted.

The trilogy closes with “High Tide,” a track that feels both expansive and intimate. The waves come in slowly, with ambient textures and confessional undertones. It’s the perfect closer—reflective, yearning, and subtly hypnotic.

This EP is summer as feeling, not season. It’s about movement without arrival, beauty touched with confusion, and small moments that stay with you long after the song ends.

While underground for now, Cornblum’s work is starting to draw sincere appreciation from early listeners. As one fan, Ryan King, put it:
“Dude, this is fkn incredible music Dave. You make some good music bro.”
Sometimes, that says it all.

Final Grade: A
Score: 94%

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