Let’s play a word association game. When I say “surf rock,” what comes to mind? You’re thinking California, Brian Wilson, the ‘60s, maybe Dick Dale, right? I’m willing to bet you’re humming “Wipeout.” Point is, you’re likely not picturing two twentysomething dudes from Fort Worth, donned in tie-dyed and Zeppelin
(Self-released, digital) Last summer, thanks to an amateur assassin/really bad driver, I discovered the joy that is a morphine dream. For a few days of.
The Courettes.
The music draws inspiration from garage rock, the surfy side of the Pixies, indie rock, and spaghetti westerns, and evokes panoramic-vistas film composers such as John Barry, Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin, and Ennio Morricone, as well as the music and sounds of Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, and Joe Meek.
You Can’t Handle… The Tremolo Beer Gut marks the debut collaboration between legendary surf and garage rock label
MuSick Recordings (LA, CA),
Foster Brothers), and ultra-hip
Crunchy Frog (TBG’s HQ of Copenhagen, DK – notably the label that debuted bands like The Raveonettes and
PowerSolo).
Big Takeover is delighted to host the premiere of the seductively slinky number “Hey Hello” from the album. The single will be officially available for purchase on June 4th, but you can hear it here in all its delectably cheeky glory.
David McKenna
, May 18th, 2021 08:14
David McKenna ponders the influence of Paris’ Seine-Saint-Denis suburb and samples Marseille rap, mongrel folk and prepared pianos. Home page photograph: Sourdure by Eloïse Decazes
Recently I’ve been reflecting on the outsize impact of one of France’s smallest administrative departments – Seine-Saint-Denis, which covers a little over 90 square miles and is known informally as
le quatre-vingt treize or
le neuf-trois – ‘the ninety-three’) after its department number – on French popular music. Listening to Gazo’s superb
Drill FR release and looking up some autobiographical details, I found myself thinking “oh,
le 93 again!”
Established in 1968, Seine-Saint-Denis is part of Paris’s