Los Bitchos Dance on the Sand in Video for Beach Rocker ‘Don’t Change’

Imagine the patience and fortitude Los Bitchos must possess to keep dancing perpetually on beaches for months and months and months — through sandstorms, rainstorms, and snow — patiently awaiting the return of summer. And yet they dance. Now that summer officially begins in less than three weeks, the instrumental British quartet have released “Don’t Change,” a documentary in the form of a music video containing footage of their endless beach dancing. Sometimes they look happy, sometimes they look serious, sometimes they eat popsicles, but they never seem to lose the beat of the vaguely Caribbean guitar line (a steel drum melody cast across steel strings). They even pass each other a beach ball to the beat.

All this, of course, is preparation for the release of their upcoming second album, Talkie Talkie, which will come out Aug. 30 — about three weeks before the end of summer, when people start packing up their beach umbrellas and folding chairs and the women get to enjoy more space for dancing. Sometime in the last year, the musicians found time to collect themselves in London’s RAK Studios and Lightship 95, where there are no beaches, to record 12 new songs with titles like “La Bomba,” “Hi!” and one disturbingly called, “Let Me Cook You,” which may be a sign of too much sun.

“‘Don’t Change’ is a pure bliss track; think holiday vibes with ice creams, beach balls, sunsets, and margaritas,” the group said jointly in a statement dictated while dancing. “It’s feel-good, with sun-soaked melodies, vibrant arpeggiator synth bass, and layers of percussion. We had such a fun time making the video, making up little dances and frolicking about in the sand and sea!”

The group will kick off a short run of North American gigs at the end of summer when they’ll feel more OK about leaving the beach briefly for New York City, though they are wrapping the run in Los Angeles, where they can begin dancing through the next nine months.

Talkie Talkie track list:

1. “Hi!”
2. “Talkie Talkie, Charlie Charlie”
3. “Don’t Change”
4. “Kiki, You Complete Me”
5. “Road”
6. “1K!”
7. “La Bomba”
8. “Open The Bunny, Wasting My Time”
9. “It’s About Time”
10. “Naughty Little Clove”
11. “Tango & Twirl”
12. “Let Me Cook You”