If you long for a quiet summer day, avoid Caleta de la Santa Rabia, where the waves are wild and the noise is loud. Leave that to Rancagua, Chile-based surf rock outfit Playa Colérica, to create an imagined South Pacific shoreline where colorful otherness and sunburnt nostalgia collide with untamed energy and extravagant fun. Safe to say, these aren’t the polite kids of surf class, this is the genre cranked to full throttle.

The eleven songs here tap into vintage ’60s instrumental shimmer, but scuffs it up with raw punk urgency, a scrappy DIY spirit, and plenty of infectious shouts. I’ll admit, after the first two cuts I wondered if the four musicians could keep that voltage running for a full album, but they never let it dip. Each tune plays like a vignette, half-memory and half-myth, where guitars crash and glide in equal measure. In short, you can also opt for melodic turbulence this coming summer.

Caleta de la Santa Rabia—recorded by Juan José Sánchez Elizalde, produced and mixed by Francisco Fernández Gallardo, cover art by Marcelo Omegna Bustos—is out now digitally (self-released). Featuring Julio Aguilera Delgado, Michael Sánchez Lara, Ricardo Espinoza González, and Cristian Benítez Cádiz.

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