Vacations hail from the ever-musical Athens, Georgia. Nightmare Beach appears to be their debut EP and it's got 4 quick-picked, adrenaline fueled instros on it for you to sink your teeth into.
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Most of what I post are announcements about new surf music. They're often mistaken for reviews, and often I may insert a little opinion, but they're only meant to let you know that it exists. But every once in a while I do want you to know how I feel about a record. I don't necessarily think I'm good at it, but here goes anyway, thoughts on three records I've been listening to recently.
els a-phonics - el torcal (els a-phonics & friends)
the vara-tones - reverberator (headin' out)
WJLP - chinchilla con queso (Hard Boiled)
the nomads - I'm Branded (7")
Dick Dale & his del-tones - the wedge (checkered flag)
the devrons - brand x (45)
frankie stein & his ghouls - wrist twist (ghoul music)
the scramblers - the pits (cycle psychos)
the challengers - foot patter (surfing with the challengers)
the sentinals - latin soul (45)
neil hefti - senorita boo bam (hefti in gotham city)
the camelots - the scratch (45)
Wild Cat Stomp is a nice little one-man production from one half of Momo-Sei, a lighthearted rock duo from Japan. I hadn't heard of them before but I got a kick out of this video...
It's been a good while since Los Plantronics' excellent 2011 LP "Organic Voodoo Soup", so they've gotten the ball rolling again by releasing a new 7" called Shortnin Bread. The namesake of the 7" is the same Shortnin' Bread you've heard plenty of times (with vocals) but it also includes "Navajo" which is exactly the sort of big-production high-energy surf I love to hear from these guys.
There's a video for Shortnin Bread on the way, but perhaps more importantly they've promised an LP called "Surfin' Times" later this year!
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