Nothing crazy today, still have a few new 45s to play, excited about this new album by Pounded by the Surf... You'll see! Just tune in at 4pm Central Time.
Last week:
11/9/15
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Earlier this year we got a surprise album dropped on us by Swami John Reis of Hot Snakes (backed by the also excellent The Blind Shake). Pounded by the Surf aren't as outward about their alter-ego, but there was enough here to be suspicious: their album is exceptionally well-produced, came out of nowhere and they're touring both the US and Europe...
This debut EP from Gemini 13 starts out unassumingly with a pretty traditional surf instro "Tijuana Spygame". But then it gets a little more showy with "Mumtosh" and gets MUCH more interesting with "Tiglath Pileser". There's some really interesting stuff here: great division of duties between lead and rhythm guitar. I hope they might rerecord some of these tracks in a subsequent release, as I don't feel like the production is allowing the oomph some of these tracks deserve. Still an eye-opener! Or ear-opener I guess.
Khruangbin are a pretty distant cousin of surf, but they're worth mentioning here because:
a) They're guitar-based and mostly instrumental
b) I've posted about them before
c) I am going nuts over this album and it wouldn't surprise me if there are other surf fans that would too.
Last week I strolled in with a ton of 45s... this weekend was the Record Raid and I've got an ENTIRELY NEW batch, plus I picked up those fancy Shadows and Atlantics LPs. Some great brand new stuff from Dirty Fuse, The 427's, Khruangbin, and Black River Manifesto as well! Gonna be one of those weeks where I have so much to play I'm going to end up winging a lot of it. That's often a good thing!
Here's what I played last week: 11/2/15
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