Here's one from a continent you don't see too often in instro: The Moths hail from South Africa and their sound reflects the look of the album cover here pretty well. It's raw, ragged, and punk-styled. This three-song live EP and their LP from last year are free to download
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Mambo Jambo are not a surf band. They've got a sax heavy sound that seems to be aiming straight for the sound that record collectors have collectively dubbed "tittyshaker". There's also some definite jazz and exotica bits to it too. If, like me, they only recently walked into your mental library of instro groups, they've convenvienly put a good chunk of their library on bandcamp.
You can give Esquivo a listen here or purchase it online
I wasn't really sure if Steelism was the sort of group this site should be concerned with when I saw that their LP "615 to Fame" was coming out. I saw it at Louisiana Music Factory and thought "what the hey". Glad I did, it's a pretty great album. Obviously there's a good helping of steel guitar, but they definitely also carry pretty heavy surf influences, with flashes of jazz, country, spy, and there's a surprising amount of fuzz too. It's clever and diverse stuff.
So hot off the heels of that, they have a limited edition 7" coming out tomorrow Turbo Time Records. You can preview one of the tracks below or order it.
reverberati - the Grand Duel (combat surf)
hipbone slim and the knee tremblers - Swagger (hipbone slim vs sir bald)
king charles' head - Jinx (king charles head/ld50 split ep)
the incredible heavies - johnny utah (surrounded by assassins)
steelism - the landlocked surfer (615 to fame)
Jerry Cole & His Spacemen - racing waves (surf age)
the creations - the crash (surf-age nuggets)
the illusions - jezabel (cowabunga disc 2)
the surfaris - scratch (hit city '64)
the deuce coupes - dawn patrol (hotrodders' choice)
There's a few more items I want to draw attention to this past year...
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