If you’re a fan of surf music in the same vein as the Aqua Velvets, Dick Dale, Los Strait Jackets, and the Ventures, you’ll absolutely LOVE this Slackstone - Into the Blue Sparkle Album. With twangy, reverb-drenched Fenders accompanied by smart basslines, and drumming that …, this is one superb surf band.

At various times throughout rock history, waves of surf bands have crashed onto the shores, and Slacktone is widely considered by instrumental aficionados to be among the very best of the third wave, the era from 1994 to the present. Its members — guitarist Dave Wronski, bassist Sam Bolle and drummer Dusty Watson — are virtuosos on their instruments. All have decades of surf under their feet — either traditionally, via Dick Dale’s backing band, or through the surf-punk route in outfits such as Agent Orange.

These guys are middleaged surf veterans who really know their stuff. Together, united under the reverb, they have contributed sacred melodies such as “Tidal Wave” and “The Bells of St. Kahuna” to the surf community, transcending the limiting constraints of the genre in the process and providing a soundtrack more complex than most. Catch a wave.