Hot Wheels – Sun Blonde - New LP

Sun-soaked L.A. melancholy, clearly heavily influenced by the slow moody side of surf rock...but nothing like Beach Boys...and while this has lots of electric guitar, and surf rock was able to use electric guitars to bridge exotica and Polynesian and Caribbean music to their music, the use of electronics on this album helps remove this from the 1960s and mixes various sources of the 1950s with sounds more connected with the electronic-heavy music of the 1980s..some vocals, but primarily focusing on instrumentals... "Perfect 10" notching up the tempos and bringing you to the roller rink sounds of decades past...mostly warm breezes shaking the palm branches, foamy waves washing across sandy beaches to tanned feet waiting...dreaming of exotica localtions and a California dream that has long since past, and may have never really existed except for maybe a few months in 1963 (and for centuries before the Europeans arrived).  -- winch

Full Color Insert w/ Lyrics and Artwork, Hype Sticker.

Hot Wheels is an impressionistic ode to driving in LA, to putrid oranges, tangerine sunsets, and atomic fireballs. When you realize you didn’t use sunscreen but the feeling of the celestial rays makes the sunburn worth it. It’s music for traveling, weaving through genres and landscapes, from new age drones to nostalgic pop hits, surf rock instrumentals to chants about emptiness.
Hot Wheels is a project conceived by Los Angeles based painter and musician, Dan Bruinooge who has played in bands such as Sylvie, Golden Daze and Vinyl Williams. His debut release, Sun Blonde, jumps from meditative drone pieces to radio-friendly hits. It plays like a soundtrack for an outsider's experience of LA – the excitement toward its warmth and opportunities, as well as its oppressive excesses, the relentless heat waves, traffic, and its annual fire season, turning the sun bright red. It could perhaps best be paired with driving in a convertible in deadlock traffic with the sun blaring in your face; dwelling and blissing out in its beauty, complexity and melancholia. Perfect for fans of Brian Eno, John Cale, Julee Cruise, Felt, My Bloody Valentine, Charlie Megira, and Amen Dunes.