so fucking cali it hurts

early 80s surfy punk, totally goofy and the lyrics lay it on pretty thick but you knew that going in

i'm not gonna wikipedia it but it would literally be shocking if this band wasnt from orange county. i would be shocked.

i saw these guys open for dick dale at a free show at the santa monica pier, it was pretty depressing all around (obviously)

dale kept yelling at his son who clearly didnt like being on stage to solo, which was funny

oh also they do a really good cover of pipeline

the mantles - trust 7"

woozy psych pop jams from some local dudes

havent been able to find a physical copy of the 7' yet but theyre playing july 2 at the hemlock so hopefully i makw it out to that

1st track is kinda crystal stilts-y but it doesnt sound like theyre trying as hard, the whole thing is real relaxed, neato organs and chimey guitars, sorta croony vocals, hitting the same sort of sweet spot as the fee fi fo fums, but more fleshed out. somewhere between them and crystal stilts.

2nd track is the real find though, fuzzed out everything, stoned out vocals, slower and tighter bass+drums, total vespa jam

i found my old highschool computer

aaron dilloway - since he's been gone



i didnt get a chance to grab a lot of shit off it, but i'm really glad i got this cause i totally forgot about it


ghosts of victrola favorites and lost oddities from the female pop vocals dollar bin fly around the room until they disintegrate in front of you basically

dilloway was a wolf eyes dude for a while so obviously you're gonna get some well placed mostquito screams and speaker farts, but this is occupying a much calmer but not really mellower space than a lot of wolf eyes stuff i've heard.

side a is mostly made up of lots of short, sometimes totally coherent, sometimes fairly doctored vocal samples, with instrumental snippets sometimes layering on top of each other, usually just going on to the next thing. not like a "piece", i dont think, but its at an album, and that is pretty cool , some moments of real beauty on this one

alternately spooky, hopeful, and driving

listen to it while driving down a highway in the desert while the sun is going down, or at a dinner party that is going to turn into a seance later

side b sounds like wolf eyes yknow
high frequencies, menacing vocals, squeals, crunches, death marches, pulses, slaps, loops, alien animals, whispers, some very black dicey ocean bleeps and bloops, listen to it while you're getting eaten by ghosts

this whole tape is about ghosts i think

this is pretty cool. i bought this record in the dollar bins like 5 years ago and never really listened to it

its somewhere in between joy division/bauhaus bummer jams, the velvets/doors worship the dream syndicate were doing in america and that sorta jammy 80s psych stuff the brian jonestown massacre ripped off from spacemen 3 who stole it from the cramps and the good stones albums

basically what im trying to say is these guys made fun doomy postpunk-y 80s psych stuff with quivery dramatic vocals on it and it was pretty good

later they made some more expensive records and had some hits in england where everyone was wearing trenchcoats and shit

i just noticed the version i put up here has a different tracklist than the lp which makes the whole thing feel really slow and boring, i'll reshuffle it later

FULLERTON, ANAHEIM, THIS IS FOR YOUUUUUUU