Really excited about today's show! Not only did I get some stuff in the mail (including a shipment of Peruvian 45s!), but also found a few things at the Record Raid this past weekend, AND got a ginormous shipment of 90s-early 200s CDs from a very generous listener. Thanks Steve!
Here's what happened last week
6/7/15
Today's show has a bunch of new ones from Green Cookie/Surf Cookie records that I think y'all will dig as well as returning newness from The Volcanics, Surf Coasters, Odicolon, Gasolines and more.
Playlist for 5/30/2016
frankie & the poolboys - monkey pod (the adventures of cap'n coconuts)
dirty fuse - stranger on mykonos (Last Wave)
13th magic skull - carved heads (brave coast wild recordings)
los straitjackets - sardinian holiday (jet set)
susan and the surftones - sunburn (the originals)
After 6 years and only two tracks on a Green Cookie compilation to show for it, Greece's The Aqua Barons have released their first LP. Though drawing on trad sounds, there's some very distinct creativity in here that really stand out as their own: from the loosely floating lead guitar in "the Lonely Siren", to a killer mix of fuzz and surf guitar in "Harbour Love" and some unhinged wildness on "Abandon Ship". The closer "Last Sunset" is a fun track as well, starting as cooled-off drifter but building into a roar.
This is the debut release from the Wave Chargers, a fearsome foursome from France that play some pumpin' trad surf. For their first release they sound amazingly tight, with some killer interplay between the two very capable guitarists, rousing drumming, and stirring bass. They can really stir up some great energy and with memorable melodies as well. My favorites are a toss-up between "La Revanche du Kuromaku" and "Flip-Side", but they're all solid. Recording is a bit lo-fi, which I'm not sure helps them here, but it's a great EP nonetheless.
One of the first groups on Green Cookie's companion label Surf Cookie Records, we have Bamboogie Injections from Russia (formerly under a different name that they have effectively swept under the rug). It makes an impression quickly though, with some frighteningly fast picking on the first two modern surf tracks. Thankfully for arthritic concern, there's some speed variation on this, with "Dandelion Wine" especially making for an interesting mix of mid-tempo song-writing, swirling keyboards (which by the way get pretty fast on this record too), and jittery-fast guitarism.
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