Not to be confused with the Beyonderers, these Houstonians play sax-heavy instros with a wacked-out exploratory attitude. The opening track "Woo-loo-loo" sets the example well, with some great twangy surf guitar at a medium tempo, that delves into a pretty unhinged sax solo. They're never all that heavy, but sway between dark and mysterious to fonky on "kyu-jyu-jyu" to plain ol' nutso on "Bananas con Platano". If you dug the latest release from Beninghove's Hangmen you're in the right neighborhood.
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The mailman was busy this week dropping off all sorts of 45s and 7"s, so today's show is jamp-packed fulla them. Slow times in terms of new releases though.
Here's last week's playlist
9/19/16
The Dustaphonics - Twangy Batacuda (100% Instrumental)
the reigning monarchs - murder your summer (black sweater massacre)
the ampFibians - bikinis 50% off (enigma of the deep)
the bahareebas - dunewalk (jellyfishing)
los galerna - soy de la costa (sangre en el atlantico)
Today I've still got a bunch of things that I meant to play last week, plus a few other cool 45s I've been digging up
Here's last week:
Playlist 9/12/16
Blackball Bandits have previously released two demos that I had argued were too good to be called demos. They had a decent reason though: they were incomplete, with parts overdubbed or drum machines used. Well now they're a full band and have rerecorded their songs onto this EP. So if you've been following along so far, you've likely heard all of these before, but it's worth hearing again.
Even if most of their songs feature vocals, you can pretty reliably hear a reverbed out surf twang underneath the Dustaphonics. Well, they went ahead and made things easy for us instro nuts and slapped together a compilation of all their instro cuts. Though I'm not too well-versed in their discography, I don't believe any of these are new cuts. However, it's also a little deeper than their 3 LPs; the exotic and powerful "Twangy Batacuda" seems to come from their guitarist's solo album.
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