Review
in The
Bohemian Aesthetic
by Jamie Lee Rake
BitchBoys: Ride the First Wave
| Seems I've written this column this long without ever writing about instrumental surf music nor the company whose president calls it "America's premier independent label". To rectify this omission on both accounts, I present you with The Bitch Boys Ride The First Wave (Golly Gee). The Slovenian (!!) quartet's ninth (!) release and debut for Golly Gee consists of mostly covers of ultra-obscure surf rock classics, but the occasional original and classical and folk adaptations sneak by in this 30-track (!!!) collection. Combining the reverb tremolo of the genre's first '50s-'60s wave with the extra kick of the punk-associated '70s-'80s surf revival melds mellifluously with the band's own Eastern European melodic influences. This stuff so rocks, even if their name mystifies me some (a rip on The Beach Boys singing about surfing without ever having done it, a predisposition for American vulgarity, or what?!). The 'Boys may not be able to hang ten where they live, but they can hang out on my stereo if they keep releasing music this mesmerizing. |