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Aug 17, 2012When they're on a roll, Guantanamo Baywatch deliver some ripping surf tunes, and they clearly know how to deliver a good time with a beat you can dance to, but Chest Crawl is never quite as exciting as it wants to be, and the flat, confined sound of the audio doesn't help one bit.
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Aug 17, 2012An album that while fun, often stagnates no matter how much the trio push things into the red.
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Aug 17, 2012The strangled-by-a-megaphone vocal style sort of makes sense for the garage rock sound the band is going for, but it's also really distracting and definitely not easy on the ears.
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Aug 17, 2012Guantanamo Baywatch is a pretty good all-instrumental surf band with a terrible singer. Chest Crawl... puts vocals on all but three of its 11 songs, attempting Cramps-style, reverbed rants, Trashmen-esque shouted call and response, Elvis-y 12/8 balladry and hiccuping rockabilly vamps and sheep-bleating, vibrato'd yelps, all badly off-key and dreadfully recorded.