When a discerning blog listener sees that a band has the word "Beach" in its name and "Ghost" in its latest album title, they probably have a clue just what style of music they’re about to get into. Amidst the flurry surf rock revival in recent years, it’s easy to be dissuaded by this kind of now-familiar branding. Fortunately for us, Blood Beach pulls it off with great success. All the right ingredients are here: plenty of fuzzy distortion, chilly reverb, and energetic rhythms perfect for any punk beach party.
Psychedelic and eccentric–complete with the eerie inflections of a theramin–The Return of the Curse of the Creature’s Ghost is reminiscent of the sci-fi garage rock of the late 1960’s and 70’s to an even greater extent than Blood Beach’s genre-based peers such as Wavves and Ty Segall. Which is to say that many folks could hear this album and assume it actually was released in 1969, a feat that not many contemporaries can claim. Yet Blood Beach is certainly aware of the fact that they are paying tribute to the era and not of the era, as evidenced by the track titled "To Adam, <3 Mother", a clever homage for a Pink Floyd fan. These guys have done their homework and it shows.
The Return of the Curse of the Creature’s Ghost LP can be purchased at the group’s Bandcamp, where the album is available for streaming as well.
— Will Mehigan