bombón - swedish fish (a date with bombón)
tigers of the sea - thundergash (tigers of the sea ep)
the tiki creeps - bottom feeder (idol worship)
Jerry Cole - midnight surfer (outer limits)
la luz - TV Dream (brainwash EP)
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A few months ago the folks at surfguitar101 were celebrating 15 years since the release of The Space Cossacks' Tsar Wars. It's an excellent album, an important surf album, but to me I just can't think of The Space Cossacks without my mind drifting on to guitarist Ivan Pongracic's later work, The Madeira's first album Sandstorm. Maybe it's because it came out back when I was really trying to dig in to surf, getting ready to do this radio show all those years ago.
Double Crown had been teasing a mystery EP in a few of their newsletters and I confess I had no clue. It turns out it was a new outfit with Sean Berry, Mr. Double Crown himself, in the lineup! He's joined by Jonny Browning of Jonny and the Shamen/MOAM and Hollis Pilling. It's a modest collection of songs, not terribly loud or aggressive, more quirky and creepy, but the MOAM lineage definitely comes through. Three of the tracks are originals, but I actually really like their take on the Ventures' VampCamp where they've sped it up to a less creepy tempo. Sounds like a new song!
bitch boys - Banzai Washout (ride the first wave)
the new dimensions - bongo shutdown (the best of)
ghastly ones - hollywood nocturne (a-haunting we will go-go)
tusnamish - más alla de la cortina (tsunamish vs los fantasmas)
los blue marinos - infeccioso (off the lip)
thom starr and the galaxies - Heatwave (south bay surf)
the sentinals - exotica (sunset beach, best of the sentinals)
Dick Dale & his del-tones - surf buggy (greatest hits 1961-1976)
PJ & the Galaxies - comin' home baby (rare surf vol. 1)
the terri-tones - go - 45
The Turbosonics have been around for a while now and have a number of live recordings up on their bandcamp, but I believe this is their second full LP. While the heart of their sound is fuzzed-out, gritty and rockin', this LP is pretty well-rounded with the cool, slow number "Frozen Surf", and the total oddball "Meat Slicer from Outer Space" that had me checking that I wasn't still listening to the Oskar Benas album I had just made a post about.
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