Phil Dirt - Reverb Central - PO Box 1609, Felton, CA 95018-1609 USA The Acaros - Web Demos
 | These three web demos show a band straddling lowbrow garage and actual surf. They suffer from demo-only sound quality and production, but there's something lurking in two of these tracks suggesting some solid potential given time to evolve. |
Picks: Hot Fuxx, Surfer, Insitacion Al Desma
Track by Track Review
Garage Surf (Instrumental)
Rich surf guitar whammy dipping a cool basic surf pattern on the left while a cheesy sixties organ whistles opposite on the right. The fuzz lead plays a circulating riff that's a little low in the mix. Overall, "Hot Fuxx" is more a garage psych exercise than truly surf, but it sure is fun in a Sir Douglas Quintet kinda way.
Garage Surf (Instrumental)
This is a cool number begging for a more sympathetic treatment. Nice chords needing a bit of whammy, a tasteful melody, and genuine surf feel lurk amid a tepid mix and recording.
Insitacion Al Desma Garage Surf (Instrumental)
"Insitacion Al Desma" is a lowbrow riff rocker. It' also fairly lo-fi. Not very interesting.