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Urban Surf Kings
...Play El Toro and Other Favourites EP - 7"
Cinnamon Toast - 1999
Michael Panontin
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Halifax scenesters Urban Surf Kings have been plying their trademark surf instrumentals out on the east coast since the early nineties. This extremely limited seven incher (300 copies on flaming red vinyl) was recorded live in the studio at the end of the millennium. With Mr. Mumps busting some credible Ventures guitar and girded by the jet-fuelled rhythm section of Crash Flag (bass) and Inky (drums), 'El Toro' comes off as a fine and frantic piece of California freak-out. The mellower western guitar on 'Ideal Surf Cafe' is a bit more on the decaf side, while the wigged-out 'Cafe Americano' on the flip gives more of a jolt - fully roasted and served up short and strong, just the way we like it.
(Watch for El Toro and Other Songs, along with the debut EP The Man from Surf, to be available digitally later in 2007, alas, just as the CD itself seems to be riding its last wave into the sunset.)
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