The knowledge that the always excellent Lethbridge-based Mammoth Cave Recording Co. was planning to re-release the complete discography of Toronto-via-Calgary surf-psych stalwarts Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet at some point in 2012 has been knocking around in my noggin for a number of months (methinks Paul Lawton let it slip at a B.A. Johnston/Moby Dicks show back in the fall). Today's news of a release date (the roll-out starts June 1st with 1990's Savvy Show Stoppers, a compilation of tunes from the 80's) was pleasing enough to hear, but coupled with the fact that the surviving members (Reid Diamond, the original bassist, passed away a number of years ago) would be reuniting at this year's Sled Island festival in Calgary, I've got no choice but to be shuffling around my house to their retro-rock riffs unabashedly for the next three months and longer. Surf's up!
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