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New album: Delicious Patricia || Mordros – The Sound Of The Surf

Tunes of twang, tide, and twists

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Delicious Patricia are a surf rock trio from a garage in mid Cornwall, UK, featuring Simon Trundle (guitars), Tony O-Rourke (bass, vox effects), and Rob Smith (drums, cowbells, vox effects). Their debut LP Mordros—Cornish for The Sound Of The Surf—counts fifteen instrumentals, seven self-penned tunes, and eight covers, including The Pyramids’ Penetration, Wild Billy Childish’s Poka Hontas, Focus’ Hocus Pocus, and Kraftwerk’s The Model. Crashing guitars recast yesterday’s sound for today and tomorrow—solid, fresh, and exciting.




Mordros—recorded by Brendan McGreal—on CD and vinyl LP, is out now digitally through Spinout Nuggets.

Add to wantlist: Bandcamp || Discogs || Spinout Productions

New album: I. Jeziak and The Surfers || I. Jeziak and The Surfers

California dreams, straight out of Gdańsk

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For exciting surf music, we turn our attention today to Poland—yes, you read that right—where composer/multi-instrumentalist Igor Jeziak and his Surfers forged the eighteen original instrumentals for their eponymous debut LP. A quick glance at the vintage cover art and you know what to expect: surging guitars that let melodies roll, wrapped in a reverb-drenched sound. What the musicians bring to the table here, however, is remarkably fresh, with notes in a previously unheard order. This is a cinematic love letter to the 60s, keeping the spirit of Dick Dale alive.



I. Jeziak and The Surfers’ self-titled debut album is out now digitally and on vinyl LP through Hi-Tide Recordings.

Add to wantlist: Bandcamp || Hi-Tide

Dusted || The 10 Best New Cover Songs Of August 2025

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Not all new music is really new, as many artists cover songs. Sometimes these are songs by their favorite artists, eg as a tribute to such a musical hero for a special reason, or they simply feel that a song deserves to be dusted and polished to reacquaint fans with great songs from the past. Other times, bands cover songs as a parody. Regardless of intent, some of those cover versions are so good or so much fun, we’d like to put a spotlight on them. Chosen from a wide range, here are – in random order – ten of our favorite covers from last month – links to the pages where you can add them to your wantlist included.

Drowning || Cover: The Sleeveens || Original: Reigning Sound
A favorite newer band covering a favorite older band, that just had to be the opening tune here. Nashville/Dublin-based pub rock outfit The Sleeveens—check out last year’s eponymous debut LP if you missed it—are back with the powerful new single Downtown. The B-side of the vinyl 7″ (out through Goner Records) has a reverent take on the Greg Cartwright-penned song Drowning, taken from Reigning Sound’s 2004 album Too Much Guitar.

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New EP: The Slims || Neon Cowboy

A cinematic soundtrack for wandering souls

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Somehow, the way Sydney-based trio The Slims blends spaghetti western-tinged surf with psychedelic rock and permanent wave leads to an intriguing and unique sound—as if The Shadows and Arctic Monkeys had a love child. For proof: Jake Jamieson (vocals/guitar), Jackson Stocks (guitar), and Max Jones are back with their sophomore EP, Neon Cowboy. Its five tracks are a smoky, cinematic ride full of reverb and twang: “Eyes wide, destined to find // All of the secrets you’ve hidden behind” (from the title track). The atmospheric guitars draw you in, the characteristic vocals won’t let you go.


Neon Cowboy, produced by Nick Hatzakos and The Slims, is out now digitally via Mandatory Music.

Add to wantlist: Bandcamp

New EP: The Eye Five || Deep Eddy

Five instrumentals that plunge beneath the surface

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The last time I wrote about The Eye Five, I neglected to mention how great this band name is, so let’s start there. We’re talking about the surf rock project of Eugene, Oregon-based musician Danny Romero (guitar, bass, drums), who returns to our stage with the Deep Eddy EP. In five cinematic instrumentals, he trades the waves for a dive into the underwater world, and that sounds as mesmerizing and satisfying as you’d hope, with a good sense of suspense.



The Deep Eddy EP, mixed and mastered by Alex Williams, is out digitally and on cassette (self-released).

Add to wantlist: Bandcamp

New album: The Chi-Tones || Salsipuedes

A widescreen soundtrack to an imagined road trip that takes you past surf breaks, dirt trails, midnight campfires, and dusty cantinas

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Please meet The Chi-Tones, a surf rock project by Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist Chi McClean (guitars, bass, piano, mellotron, glockenspiel, banjo, sitar, toy piano, whistle, shouts, handclaps). Salsipuedes is his full-length debut album under this moniker—twelve lavish instrumentals that channel the golden age of surf and spaghetti-western soundtracks but push the dial into trippier, more cinematic territory, including Latin vibes.

Familiar ingredients are used to craft a fresh recipe—one that’s equally fit for a summer drive or a late-night cocktail party. But don’t jump to conclusions just yet, this record stretches the genre into a vivid storytelling medium that ranges from secretive swagger and high-stakes energy to border-crossing balladry and shadowy mystique, usually playful and sun-drenched, sometimes with a darker side. Vintage vibes collide with cosmic wanderlust, a colorful adventure.



Salsipuedes—written, performed, recorded, and produced by Chi McClean—is out now digitally and on limited edition vinyl LP (self-released). Featuring Miles McPherson on drums.

Add to wantlist: Bandcamp

New album: The Fathoms || Hard To Fathom

Eighteen years gone, but time can’t wash away the sound

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Last fall, you already heard two tracks on a split 7″ with Draculina, and now we get more of where that came from. Hard To Fathom is the first new album from Boston rock ‘n’ roll five-piece The Fathoms in eighteen years, continuing where Fathom This! (2007) left us, although the fresh work rocks a little harder and sounds a bit bigger.

Frankie Blandino (lead guitar), Rob Amaral (guitar), Sax Gordon (saxophone), John Sciascia (bass), and Stan Kozlowski (drums) deliver eight cinematic surf rock instrumentals that blend influences from rockabilly and spaghetti Westerns, with guitars and sax alternately taking center stage. Twang and rhythm reunited in full force, the waves still crash with power.



Hard To Fathom is out digitally, on CD and vinyl LP, through MuSick Recordings.

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New single: Los Frenéticos || Cinerama

An instrumental journey to the unexpected

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Argentinian rock ‘n’ roll outfit Los Frenéticos are back with two slices of exciting surf instrumentals. Viaje a lo Inesperado (translated: Journey to the Unexpected) wordlessly unfolds a thrilling story that lives up to its title in 2:30 minutes. The same goes for Cinerama, over a minute longer and more subdued, but with a cinematic feel that deserves an artistic video (yes, there is one). Naturally, the two tunes are guitar-driven, but the former is graced with organ melodies and the latter features a classical intermezzo—both have a timeless quality.


Cinerama is out now digitally through Hi-Tide Recordings.

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New album: Shooting Losers || it’s all been such a drag

Catchy noise by Kyle Richardson and Adrian Pedraza

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Lock Kyle Richardson and Adrian Pedraza in a Californian bedroom with some instruments and a recording device, and good things happen. In the case of their Shooting Losers project, it’s beautiful chaos and irresistibly catchy noise. Lo-fi out of necessity or by design? Who cares. The result sends Terry Malts vibes out of the speakers, maybe even like early Surfer Blood demos.

This is music equally suited for your extreme sport of choice or for doing absolutely nothing at all. It’s summer — rock out with these Shooting Losers dudes.



Add to wantlist: Bandcamp

New EP: Katatonics || DANGIT!

Ho Yeah!

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After a 16-year hiatus, a new season of the animated series King of the Hill has aired, prompting Bloomington, Indiana-based rock ‘n’ roll trio Katatonics to record a tribute EP. The current lineup, featuring Chris Hack (guitar), Mike Morgan (bass), and Sam Pierce (drums), delivers four cinematic surf instrumentals that underscore their class. Floor-burner Return of the King and western-tinged Private Rodeo are the most exciting tunes here, but the tranquility of Rainey Street and Luanne’s Saga is also more than worthwhile. You can hear yourself concluding in style: “Dang it, Bobby, this is good.”


DANGIT! is out now digitally (Self Made Records).

Add to wantlist: Bandcamp

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