The Sonics - BoomBoom the Sonics second album, originally released in 1966 on Etiquette Records in wonderful mono. Boom still does much more than merely deliver on the promise of the first album, Here Are The Sonics!. Few records have ever packed as much of a musical punch from start to finish. Even more so than their first LP, it offers a representation of what the Sonics must have sounded like at the peak of their considerable powers. Recorded in the most glorious

Dead Kennedys

strings and vocal manipulations

or method of seeing what each member could cough up

The album‰۪s twelve songs were conceived and written during months of gruelling international touring and realised with producer Rodaidh McDonald in a Berlin studio in the height of summer 2013

including Shabaka Hutchings

cosmic jazz and Fourth World influences

The band enjoyed positive critical appraisal

with decorative-but-unobtrusive guitar work and

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B: The Winstons – Color Him Father

Produced by band member John Collin (bass) with Newman

to exploring new musical terrain and becoming a mother