What a glorious thing it is to have another surprise holiday single from The Kung Fu Monkeys magically appear just when the world needed it the most! There are not many things that could make 2025 feel like an encouraging year for Planet Earth, but this is certainly one of them. For this release, James Cahill and co. are Les Kung Fu Monkeys, and "Surfer en France!" is sung entirely in French. Clocking in at one minute, 47 seconds, this particular single has a bit of a KFM throwback feel to it — right down to the jaunty surf-pop vibes and Dyna Moe cover art. I'm pretty sure as I stepped outside the other morning, the faint echoes of celebration I heard in the distance were the collective gleeful exclamations of every late '90s/early 2000s pop-punk kid discovering that this song now exists. And of course it's an earworm of epic proportions. The song's bridge, an homage to Bobby "Boris" Pickett, cleverly suggests that this is something more than just a happy-go-lucky surf rocker (assuming my understanding of French isn't way off-base).
It was never bearable to go through life referring to The Kung Fu Monkeys in the past tense. And now that I have it on good authority that the band has a bunch of songs written that may indeed be recorded one way or another in the very near future, it's somehow easier to feel just a little more optimistic about everything under the sun. Avec une hache, faisons une haché des monstres!
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