On this adventurous
disc, guitarist/bassist Pete Prown,
drummer Phil Robertson, and organist “Count d’Farfiso” dish up 11 tracks of
raging “surf” music that is, um, all over the map, sounding like combinations of the B-52s, Dick
Dale, Carl Perkins, Hank Marvin, Link Wray, Robert Fripp, and Joe Meek-produced early-’60s
bands such as the Moontrekkers and the Fabulous Flee-Rekkers—sometimes within
the same song. Prown gets lots of nice tones and does some fine playing
throughout—joined by steel-guitarist Jim Otis on the country flavored “Haybale”—and
he mostly manages to merge the disparate styles in convincing ways. Stand out guitar moments include the Randy
California-informed harmonized lines on “Over the Top,” the vaguely Peter
Greenish blues licks on “Quiet Blues,” the Beck-y bursts on “Hot Wings,” the
exotic melodies and Fripp-inspired parallel sustained lines on “Attack of the
Mysterons,” and the groovy twanged-out figures on the title track. Although few
of the individual tunes are particularly original sounding—serving mostly as
vehicles for Prown’s hopped-up soloing—taken as a whole the album has a great,
upbeat feel to it and is loads of fun to listen to, especially when tooling down
the coast in your Woodie. Self released.