Don’t ask Santa Barbara’s Trout Club for any fishing tips. They’ve now moved onto land.
Four years to the day after their dropping their debut EP, the garage-rock quartet, named after the small mountainside neighborhood off Highway 154, is releasing their first full-length album, Land Practice, on December 23.
“That was kind of a cute little accident, not at all planned,” laughed lead singer, rhythm guitarist, banjoist and occasional violinist Quique Hernandez-Black. Neither was most of what the band of lifelong friends — including Kai Zheng on lead guitar and keyboards, and twins Malcolm and Cedric Bobro on bass and drums, respectively — has weathered since that EP, Welcome to the Trout Club, came out in the final days of 2019.