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Savage Island

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If you love surf music and surf music with a Polynesian twist then this is the album for you. The cover art (by Shag) and the music combine to form an excellent album that you'll swear you must have heard in the late 50's or early 60's, even if you weren't alive back then.

The Bomboras "Savage Island" is pleasant listening for instrumental fans, but nothing more. When I had listened to it I realized that nothing had really stood out and grabbed my attention. If you were having a small dinner party, and wanted unobtrusive background music, this CD might be a good choice. Also, as a guitar fan, I could really do without the organ.

By no means is this a bad disc--but after listening to other "new" surf-guitar groups like the Penetrators, Aqua Velvets and those wild Space Cossacks, this one sounds very tame.

I'm a huge fan of surf rock ex: Man Or Astroman, the Ghastly Ones, The Moon-Rays, etc. So when I heard The Bomboras on Rob Zombie's Halloween Hootenany I thought I'd check them out on their own. To be fair I can only speak for Savage Island, but this album was entirely disappointing. Like I said I am a fan of surf ROCK, but this has no backbone at all. It lacks that certain punch that we love in other bands. It's really more like lounge music. It's fairly soft, meandering and to be frank a bit boring. If you enjoy the jazzier less punk styles of modern surf music then you'll enjoy this album. But if like me, you were expecting a bit more bite, I'd pass on this one.

Well this is by far the best bomboras album to me, it has a great mix of surf and exotic island sounds. Sad to say this is the only bomboras album that I like the others are average. Some problems with this cd is the bad recording and 2 or 3 of the songs are dull, but most of the others have a cool sound. If you want to buy an album from these guys then only get this one.