This is the second LP from The Silicon, and it covers a lot of ground. There's some shredders like "Mysterious Island" and the title track "Tiki Tohoa", and some western tracks like "Road to the Ranch", and I pick up a lot of rautalanka and shadows influence on others. They bill themselves on bandcamp as post-Soviet surf-rock and I can't help but think of the Surfbeat Behind the Iron Curtain compilations. Maybe they should feature on a modern equivalent of that!
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Par Avion clearly love the surf sound, but don't let it get in the way when they have other ideas. "Unchained Melody" has a great Duane Eddy meets modern-surf twang to it and sets the tone well for the rest of the album. But then the song "Par Avion" has a less motivated, more post-punk melancholy to it. Then the next song features a cello, the next one has a great orchestral spaghetti western sound to it, but then there's a pretty straightforward cover of Misirlou.
Today we've got local surf group Sun Year joining around 5 o'clock! They made a facebook event and everything!
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Here's last week's playlist (10/5/15)
What's scarier than a show full of eery surf tracks? YOU ARE! I need your help to make this the most terrifying Storm Surge of Reverb HOLLEREEN SHOW yet. That means accumulating your SCREAMS, BEAST MOANS, DEATH THREATS, and other SPOOKY NOISES to be played back during the show. THIS YEAR that show is Monday, October 26th, so I'd like your calls by October 25th. Not the closest to Halloween ever, which means we gotta let EVEN MORE EVIL IN
I love it when a new release slides into my hands during my radio show. Without more than 3 seconds of screening beforehand, I hit play on "North Bank of Lost River", which starts with an envigorating swell... then loud prominent vocals. It's an instrumental radio show, so I jumped a bit, but I was actually pretty durn excited about the instrumental underneath. When I got a change to listen to the entire thing, I found that the majority of the tracks were still instrumental, and a great improvement over the already quite enjoyable "Dragstrip Murder Mystery".
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