Every year the Gremmy Awards gather up and sort out the best of all the surf/instro releases. This prestigious award (a .png file for you to right-click-save-as) is only given to one band (or entity) per category, though there can be any number of Honorable Mentions. There's no real criteria except my own personal nitpicks, biases, and whims -- no voting committee. However, towards the end we'll have a few Guest Gremmys.
Here are the categories.
- Best Trad Surf Album: True to the 60's Surf Sound
- Best Rad Instro Album: Hard-edged and adrenaline focused.
- Best Modern Instro Album: Bands that build on the trad sound to make something fresh and new.
- Best Way-Out Instro Album: Bands that only keep a thin tether to the surf sound.
- Best Album Art
- Special Gremmys: Best sound procution, best label, worst album art, whatever I feel is worth mentioning.
- Guest Gremmys
And of course, there's the Big List of EveryDamn Surf/Instro Release I Know Of
