The latest from Australia's surf guitar maestro. You've got 5 tracks on this one, four originals and of course the cover of the classic Sleepwalk. As can be expected from Cilia, production is slick as all get-out with reverbed electric guitar floating on for miles on Sleepwalk. I've only heard the snippets below of the originals, but it looks like they've got a solid breadth and some fresh ideas.
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Though I really do try to stay on top of all major surf releases as they come out, there are plenty that slip by my notice and some I plum forget to talk about. So I'll do them all at once because that's somehow less daunting to me than doing them individually. If I'm missing anything let me know, I'm definitely going to reference this when I build my list of surf releases from 2016.
Said the Ripper - The Hanging at Barbed Wire (Released in May)
Straight ahead today with a good crop of vintage stuff and a few new things here and there.
Here's last week's playlist
7-18-16
the barbwires - dead beat (7" comp)
Eddie Angel - brawl (guitar party)
the chandelles - el gato (that's swift! instrumentals from the norman petty vault)
the torquays - rescue at mavericks (live) (return engagement)
In case any of y'all were curious about my surf LPs, I made a post on reddit. For surf veterans, you probably won't be amazed. I was trying to go over some of the basics and give an introduction to the music as well as show off some of the nice stuff. If you're curious about any of these, feel free to ask!
The comments in the section were full of people that were curious about surf... and I got a bunch of recommendations for groups I'd never heard of.
Robotron is a project by Bjørn Hovland featuring 7 tracks of monstrous fuzzed out tough surf. While a lot of these projects where one member writes and plays many parts tend to sound stripped down, this gives no indication based on the music itself. Partially because this was hardly a bedroom recording: Bjorn hails from Norway, the album was mixed in Brazil and mastered in Seattle!
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