You gotta be careful looking for surf rock on Burger Records. They're home to an awful lot of the bands that are muddying up the term. You know, garage bands with a lot of reverb on the vocals, stuff derived from Wavves, Black Lips etc. And right from the first track one might think that's the case here, with summery girl-group-garage sing-a-long vocals, but I urge you to stay! The next track is "Swedish Fish", a rippin' surf instro with punchy, splashy percussion free of pretention and all about fun.
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Wow! It's been 7 years since Atomic Mosquitos released their last LP Meltdown, and I've played that one an awful lot in the meantime. I was curious what Bug Music for Bug People was going to sound like. I seem to remember an email a long time ago where they told me that they weren't as happy with Meltdown as I was, and really what CAN you expect a band to sound like 7 years later?
When Os Brutus released their last EP, I concluded by saying I was looking forward to hearing more of them. I didn't have to wait long! Os Brutus have a great dirty tone to them but stay solidly within the surf realm. Some of the tracks from their EP have made it onto this one, but with a full album they get to breathe a little bit more, try different tempos.
los blue marinos - adventure reef (off the lip)
los protones - dr. esqueleto (20 monstruos 2007-2015)
els a-phonics - the whisky-a-go-go raiders (& friends)
el capitan and the band with no name - mallacan straights (death of a tiki)
LOS FRENETICOS - frenetiqueando (el playa)
daringers - morgus creep (morgus wails with the daringers)
the sentinals - big surf (sunset beach, best of the sentinals)
the hollywood persuaders - Rush Street (drums a-go-go)
the revels - intoxica (intoxica!!! the best of)
the tarantulas - tarantula - 45
Well, sometimes my all-seeing surf eye doesn't see things when they come out. And I think I'd be remiss to not mention them anywhere on the site, so we're playing catch-up here.
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