The Members of Plastic Cactus Can’t Decide if Their Music Sounds More Like “Spongebob Squarepants” or a Spaghetti Western Considering that the nearest beach is more than 80 miles away, it’s somewhat of a stretch for any Portland band to truly count as surf rock.
Guantanamo Baywatch’s Third Album of Demented Surf-Rock Is a Wipeout-Free Affair While reverent surf rave-ups eat up most of “Desert Center,” Guantanamo Baywatch isn’t about to let anyone forget it can write a perfect pop song.
Charts, Break (Curly Cassettes) Charts may be just another drop of seawater in the vast ocean of Portland’s surf-pop scene, but Breaks is still a pretty good beach vacation, fake or not.
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