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We have found our way back on to streaming platforms. For all you kids who like your streaming services, we did it! Our two most recent albums are available and more will be added over time. We have entered the modern age of music consumption.
Reverb, set, stream!
The Spiratones return with a deliciously intriguing odd-couple pairing on their new double A-side single.
The surf-stained garage rocker, ‘Crooked Waeve’ crashes into view with a pulse quickening immediacy provided by snarling guitar hooks and a propulsive baseline which weave and menace as the song unfolds.
In contrast, ‘Heartbeat in Retreat’ is unapologetically tender. Its hopeful, big-hearted melody, inspired by nascent love after loss, expands exponentially to swell even the darkest of hearts.
Stream from all the usual places or head to Bandcamp Link
TERREUR TWIST GIGS in FRANCE & BELGIUM !!
Our newest Halloween single, March of the Dead Surfers, is out and features two versions! The straight up rockin' surf one and a special "Halloween mix" complete with creaking coffins, haunting bells and more!
March of the Dead Surfers - Bandcamp
Duke, Foo, Andy and others rush to return to the cold and darkly swell on All Hallows Eve. As the lightning crackles, the moon draws forth wicked waves from the deathly depths of the ocean. But the Dead Surfers revel and race throughout the night until daybreak... when they must return to their tombs and wait for their next unearthly stoke.
Joining their macabre clambake as the moon rises is Agent Octopus pointing there reverb soaked amps toward the ravishing sea where the dearly departed surf all night. But at daybreak all vanish. Were the agents real, or just apparitions??!!
Happy Haunting and don't forget to add "The Ghost of Tom Returns" by the agents to your Halloween song mix.
Should be available on Spotify, Apple Tunes, etc. in about a week, so add to your Halloween party playlist and make it a shrieking, shocking shindig!!!
Four new songs recorded in our rehearsal studio a month back. We hope you like it.
https://wuzai.bandcamp.com/album/wuzai
Hi! New Thálasses 12" Maxi Single is available now:
4 singles already on streaming platforms and other 2 to be released by Missing Fink Records.
Purchase here:
Or
Thanks in advance,
-Sys
"SUN, SAND, SURF & SIDEWALLS" Third Edition
By Tom Tourville
"This is an interesting way to view the history of surf and hot-rod music: through autographs of bands and solo artists that made all the records that we've loved over the years. Not just autographs, either, but a ton of interesting graphics from photographs to record labels to concert posters. One of the adjacent benefits this book provides is a way to confirm the authenticity of any autographs in the book that the reader may already have on record labels, LP jackets, photographs, etc."
Beach Bomb is finally back with a new single!
This time with a high tempo cover of the classical piece "Asturias"
It's got drippy reverb, heavy hitting drums, fast paced bass, organs and trumpets. Everything you need for a good time!
Check it out on Bandcamp and all streaming services!
The Routes - Surfin' Pleasures
Topsy Turvy Records TTR-027
LP / CD / Streaming out November 8th 2024!
LP limited to 1000 copies with embossed cover and inner sleeve (artwork by Peter Saville and Malcolm Garrett). Pressed at the same pressing plant as the 40th Anniversary pressing of Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures".
First 100 copies ordered directly from Soundflat mailorder come with a numbered poster and postcard (signed by the band).
Preview:
Link
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, The Routes are back with their unique blend of “beat-you-to-death surf music” (Iggy Pop). Their latest target: the music of Joy Division!
Having previously surfy-fied the songs of Kraftwerk and Buzzcocks, “Surfin’ Pleasures” sees The Routes take on the music of Joy Division. As with their previous “tributes”, this is not an album of note for note cover versions. The Routes have only taken subtle melodic and rhythmic hints from the original songs; rearranging them into songs of their own, respectfully and lovingly translating the music of Joy Division into a different musical language.
“Surfin’ Pleasures” sees twelve classic Joy Division songs reimagined and rearranged as banging 60s surf guitar instrumentals (à la The Ventures, Dick Dale, Shadows, Trashmen, Terauchi Takeshi, Link Wray, The Surfaris and The Astronauts and more).
Prepare to be taken on a wild musical trip where “A Means To An End” and “Ice Age” are transformed into the background music of a 60s drag race movie, “Transmission” hints at the classic Astronauts sound, and “Digital” gets the beach party treatment... You don’t have to be a fan of Joy Division to enjoy these tunes, and likewise if you’re a Joy Division fan you don’t need to be a fan of surf music to enjoy them.
The record cover comes courtesy of British design icons Peter Saville and Malcolm Garrett. It is a reworking of Peter Saville’s design for Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures”. Reminiscent of the op art of Bridget Riley, the lines are no longer that of a pulsar, but that of the sound wave of a reverb tank.
Blasphemy or alchemy? You decide!
One thing is for sure is that The Routes have provided the world with yet another future cult classic, destined to irk or jerk for eons to come.
Pressed in HELLFIRE ORANGE with BLACK SPLATTER, this SPINE-CHILLING 7" was conjured up to wake the dead... and to satiate your spooky surf addiction. SIDE A features an original (sin) song about waves infernal, christened "SWELL FROM HELL", and slay you on the B-SIDE with a ghastly cover of "NO MERCY FOR THE DEAD" from Maine hardcore punk band of yore, Wicked Dead! Both tracks were engineered and mixed by Todd Hutchisen at Acadia Recording Company in Portland, Maine, and mastered by the dastardly Dave Klein (The Ghastly Ones, The Bomboras).
Order here: https://shriekifyouknow.bandcamp.com/album/swell-from-hell
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