Walk Don’t Run is a late-night surf compilation built around a loose, cinematic story of friendship pushed to breaking point across twelve restless hours. Sourcing demos from the Ry-Ko archives, it captures the darker, slow-burn end of mid-’60s surf culture, where mood eclipses flash.
The record features cult groups including Duane & The Drifters, The Persuaders, Bailey’s Nervous Kats, The Shelltones, and The Monterays, tracing a sound that drifts toward echo-heavy ballads and melancholy twang. Rather than surf’s bright, high-energy peak, these instrumentals feel unhurried, dreamlike and slightly bruised—music for diners, empty boardwalks and bad decisions made long after midnight.
Romantic, unruly, and nostalgic, Walk Don’t Run imagines surf music at the moment it lost its daylight swagger and found something stranger.
The record features cult groups including Duane & The Drifters, The Persuaders, Bailey’s Nervous Kats, The Shelltones, and The Monterays, tracing a sound that drifts toward echo-heavy ballads and melancholy twang. Rather than surf’s bright, high-energy peak, these instrumentals feel unhurried, dreamlike and slightly bruised—music for diners, empty boardwalks and bad decisions made long after midnight.
Romantic, unruly, and nostalgic, Walk Don’t Run imagines surf music at the moment it lost its daylight swagger and found something stranger.
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