I've wanted to look into the El Caminos past their excellent Del-Fi Release Reverb Explosion, but their other releases aren't terribly cheap for an American to find. So here we have a compilation of unreleased tunes from before that record. Some of them are familiar: alternate takes that found their way onto other El Caminos records, some are covers. It's good trad surf, though nothing that quite jumps at me like Reverb Explosion did. It's great to have more material, even if it's old, from a great Japanese surf group.
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Here's one I almost passed by completely. Between the - I'm sorry but - terrible album art and the genitalia joke in the band name, I figured this would be some awful snotty garage-style surf rock a la Wavves. I took the risk though, and was immediately bowled over by some top-notch honkin' sax over a surf beat. This the good stuff: well produced trad surf with memorable melodies, nice big guitar sound backed up by some smartly accenting bass and keys. The first two tracks definitely outperform the second half, but it's all good. Mark 'em down in your book, or whatever.
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.
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