As a native Southern Californian, I was practically weaned on surf music. It doesn’t matter if I prefer blues, jazz, classical or anything else. The average Californian sees surf rock as the official state music with Dick Dale as its de facto governor. So I’m always surprised to see the twangy music escaping its borders and ending up in such places like Ohio, Israel, Japan or , in the case of Dr. Frankenstein, Portugal.

Portugal isn’t all that odd a place for surf music considering the nation is almost all coastline. And Dr. Frankenstein is one of my favorite surf bands of a number of groups that ply their trade for free on the internet. Their main influences appears to be The Ventures and the ubiquitous Mr. Dale. There is a darkness to this music that doesn’t always speak of sun and sand. Also noticeable is the use of original material rather than the worn out surf standards. Overall, a rockin’ EP for surfers from any country.

The album is available in 192kbps MP3 from You Are Not Stealing Records’ download page or an album zip from the link below.

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