Los Fuckin' Surfer Smokers
LFSS digital EP
(Self-issued)
El Rayo, Davie Allan, and Ennio Morricone walked into a bar. Inside, sunglassed Columbian Beat ministers hailed them.
"I know a studio," someone said. The result is combustible (as Deutschland dynamos recently discovered.)
Recommended: "A Night in Tangier," "Yihaw!," "La criatura del Paramo," "Kumbia Surfin'"
Videos: "A Night in Tangier" "Kumbia Surfin'"
I. Jeziak and the Surfers
Spooky Tunes
(Hi-Tide Recordings)
Hi-Tide is not waxing hyperbolic, when they pronounce "Poland, sounding like '60s California." And though the combo's atmospheric outings make for capital Halloween creepiness - Surf-guitar lines snaking through fathoms-deep ensemble constructions that imply doom behind the door, funereal organ and mesmeric percussion that whisper of a world where only wraiths tread - they'll serve equally well at all points in the year, whenever ominous melodizing is called for.
Recommended: "Mummy Walk Pt. II," "Twilight"
Videos: "Mummy Walk Pt. II" "Twilight"
Los Straitjackets
Somos Los Straitjackets
(Yep Roc Records)
So conversant are they in disparate tongues, that the "Surf" adjective often cast upon them hardly suffices. The spring-heeled four are widely hailed for assurance that awes. Textbook dexterity enables them to deal out impressive constructions that are sophisticated, dashing, and, sporadically, introspective. Frankie, Annette, and Deadhead/Bonehead fell in with Wray rumblings, Montgomery Ward-transistor-to-ear musings, and movements serenely majestic, a wealth of sensuous jollities being the creation.
500 copies exist, per Yep Roc.
Recommended: "Bumper Car," "Polaris," "Genesee River Rock," "High Wire Act," "Numbskull," "Two Steps Ahead," "April Showers" (feat. guitarist Simon Heeran), "Cry For a Beatle," "Copy Cat," "Wicker Park," "Spinout"
Videos: "Polaris" (official video) "High Wire Act" (live) "Spinout" (official video)
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