The Grande Bois "Surf Salvation" 2016

The Grande Bois have been a pretty ambitious group since their first release and they're just as inventinve and frenetic on their third LP...
...Though their album art often deals in horror movie camp, they don't really come off as a horror surf band (especially on sleepy tracks like "Shy Groove", a straight sunset surf tune). Rather, they roll around in strange fiction tropes with playfulness. It gives them a good variety, sometimes playing it straight and sometimes getting pretty goofy and punctuating a song with cow moos. The weirdness is pulled off well with some great sound production sorcery and and pretty wide array of sounds played by evidently very capable musicians. Basically, The Grande Bois is a band where you can expect them to throw you something unlike what you've heard before on a pretty regular basis, and when they do they do it adeptly.
trax:
01 The Last Outpost 02 Matador 03 Living Dead Twist 04 Shy Groove 05 Private Eye 06 Rattle Of Bones 07 Restless (and Re-Animated) Legs 08 S.A. Movement (Surf-A-Holics Anonymous) 09 The Strata Flight 10 Gold Of Toronado 11 Road Rage 12 Rumble At The Docks