1. Crystal Green
2. Welcome / Clouds Roll In
3. On The Waikiki
4. Thieves Of Kailua
5. Return Of The Tourist!
6. Under Setting Sun
7. Purist Tourist
8. Age Is In Ya Head!
9. Do What Just You Do Me
10. Waikiki Serenade / Crystal Blue
11. Hawaii She Calls
12. Earth She Rejoices
13. Bit Of Sunshine
14. Hula-Bye
Total time: 31:18
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The Thieves of Kailua
Jason Holstrom
Mill Pond
Appropriately beginning with a two-note condensation of “Pipeline” before Venture-ing into molecularly rearranged “Walk Don’t Run” territory, opening track “Crystal Green” really gets cracking with whip-cracks straight out of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Then it gets even better: Orchestra chimes, ukuleles and harpsichords join the fray, accompanied by multitracked vocals that would have been just as at home on an Esquivel LP as on a Beach Boys album, and the song fades to the sound of a twin-engine plane flying low overhead.
So begins this musical island vacation, whose points of interest include the title track, which sounds like something from an alternate-universe “Pet Sounds”; “Return of the Tourist,” an instrumental featuring jungle drums the likes of which haven’t been heard since 10cc’s “Hotel”; and “Hula-Bye,” an a cappella number made up of wordless, mega-overdubbed vocals along the lines of “Our Prayer” from Brian Wilson’s “Smile,” except here it’s an outro rather than an intro.
Three years in the making and recorded in Holstrom’s bedroom studio, the United State of Electronica guitarist and former Wonderful bassist has single-handedly crafted a near masterpiece in the not exactly burgeoning (but oh, were it otherwise) genre of pseudo-Hawaiian psychedelic surf-pop rock.
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