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Hot Tropics
Rock · 2010 · 10 tracks · 24m

Hot Tropics

The Growlers

Dusty, reverb-soaked surf rock that feels like a haunted beach party. Gritty analog warmth meets macabre tropical storytelling in ten short, sharp bursts.

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It sounds like a haunted tiki bar where the ghost of a 60s surf star is the house band.

A sun-bleached, heat-delirious descent into coastal gothic surrealism.

Hot Tropics · vs · The Growlers
Death Mortality+4.0σ

The writing leans far further into death mortality than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 24m
01
Graveyard’s Full
2:07
02
Nosebleed Sun
1:21
03
What It Is
2:32
04
The Moaning Man From Shanty Town
1:23
05
Sea Lion Goth Blues
2:30
06
Badlands
2:52
07
Let It Be Known
3:19
08
Camino Muerto
3:24
09
Underneath Our Palms
3:09
10
Hula Hula Hideout
1:27
Moments Worth Waiting For
The skeletal, clicking percussion on 'Graveyard’s Full' that sounds like dry bones rattling in time.
The way the guitar lead in 'Sea Lion Goth Blues' mimics a drunken sea shanty played through a blown speaker.
The sudden, jarring shift into the haunting organ-driven coda of 'Camino Muerto'.
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