Tijuana Panthers / Wayne Interest
Album: Wayne Interest   Collection:General
Artist:Tijuana Panthers   Added:Jul 2014
Label:Innovative Leisure Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2014-07-11 Pull Date: 2014-09-12
Week Ending: Sep 14 Sep 7 Aug 31 Aug 24 Aug 17 Aug 10 Aug 3 Jul 27
Airplays: 2 2 4 5 2 1 2 3

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 09, 2020: Organic Fruit Tracks
Nobo
4. Nov 06, 2014: The Sunset Life
Nobo
2. Oct 08, 2015: radio seven
Nobo
5. Oct 02, 2014: The Sunset Life
Cherry Street
3. Jan 08, 2015: The Sunset Life
Cherry Street
6. Sep 23, 2014: The Sunset Life
Cherry Street

Album Review
Wallace Brontoon
Reviewed 2014-07-11
Surf + garage + post-punk -- that about says it. The surf sounds are sweet, the fuzz and garagey crunch is driving, the punk-y snarl and post-punky bass doom is dramatic-- what's not to like?

A mix of short and longer songs (some less than two minutes). No FCCs. Play just about anything. RIYL: Thee Oh Sees, Dick Dale, The Intelligence, La Sera, Buzzcocks.

01. (1:46) *** Post-punk bass, snarly (Iggyish) vocals, surfy backbeat. Sudden ending.
02. (2:04) *** "Torpedo" repeated a bunch. Surfy as hell. Demented, fun, manic. Sweet-sounding guitar riff ends it.
03. (3:07) ***** Fuzzy git into surfy git. Kicks into great echoey bridge. Fun punky, twee-y sound through surfy feel.
04. (2:41) *** Big doomy bass riff into dried-out "dark matter" chant. Weary, depressive fun surf.
05. (3:15) **** Real dorky teen-y punky vox. Mumbly chorus that really drives.
06. (2:53) **** "Gonna get fired... fired today". Manic surfy panicking, echo-chamber blase vox.
07. (4:07) **** A little more '80s slinky-walk. Vampy and echoey, feels lit in neon blue. "...where you get your money..." Less surfy, except for great surf solo, with MC: "guitar:" "my turn:"
08. (3:35) ***** Great energy surf intro with tape-hiss. Great ghosty bg vox. Furious surf solo. TREMENDOUS. Sudden-ish ending, with echo.
09. (3:54) **** Swaying high-school dance surf, with pleasant but destroyed lead singer. Sweet-key guitar solo. Hi-note angst dramatics.
10. (2:56) ***** Buzzcocks cover! (but with a million times more surf + echo + warpo distortion!) Hi-speed post-punk + manic drums + killer melody.
11. (1:58) *** Hi-speed quickie: echoey chant-snarl in a surf-echo-chamber. Start-and-stop sudden ending.
12. (2:44) *** Talking intro (ambient chatter) for 15 seconds, then MANIC. doom sounds, angry drums. Hurt vocals.
13. (3:23) **** Angular robotic post-punk with sharp-edged surfy git. Stylish but androidy, '80s.
14. (2:45) **** '50s teen-tragedy pastiche. slow. doo-wop bg vox with echoey doomy swampy vox. Teen prom surf David Lynch nightmare! Long soft echoey outro.

-Hervey Okkles

Track Listing
1. Four Horsemen   8. Time
2. Torpedo   9. 7th Seal
3. Cherry Street   10. Everybody's Happy Nowadays
4. Dark Matters   11. Reaction
5. Sooner Or Later   12. Wayne Interest
6. Fired   13. Money Jar
7. Nobo   14. Car Crash