Garage punks Guantanamo Baywatch recently released their latest LP Darling… It’s Too Late and it’s everything we’ve come to expect and love from the Portland trio – snotty, hooky garage rock.

Since the release of their first album back in 2010, the band have built a repuation on wrangling up  somewhat mishmash of classic surf instrumental and brash garage rock resulting in a recent signing with Smack Face Records (and locally Create/Control).

Darling… It’s Too Late was recorded at Atlanta’s The Living Room (Black Lips, Mastodon, The Coathangers) is the latest instalment from the trio, and sees explore different approaches while still managing to incorporate their experimental sub-genres.  In celebration of its release, band members Jason Powell and Chevelle Wiseman gave us a track by track run down of the record which you can check out below.

Jungle Bride

Jason Powell: “When I wrote the song, I couldn’t figure out what it sounded like, and it always bugged me. Then on tour we were listening to this station that was playing 90s country and Sawyer Brown’s shitty (and awesome) cover of six days on the road came on. It sucks to think I’ve had that goofy song sitting in the back of my head for like 20 years”

Raunch Stomp

Chevelle Wiseman: “We recorded this for the Surf n Turf 7″ with Natural Child a while back. It was written mostly at the studio so we hadn’t really played it live yet. It’s changed from the recording after playing it on tour so we wanted to rerecord it for this album and do it up. Also when Jason wrote the song I lived in a house with a box of baby chicks in the backyard that would go insane if you looked at them, so I’ve always thought of this song as a chicken party.”

Sea of Love

JP: “This is an auto biographical piece about the many intricacies of love making.”

Corey Baums Theme

CW: “This song is about our best bud Corey who lives in Austin, TX. He’s the baddest mutherfucker is the USA. He’s in a band called Croy and the Boys and another band called Dumb. He plays real country music at state fairs and rides a motorcycle and bbqs entire whole pigs for us when we come to town. He’ll wake us up with fresh tacos and Lone Star beers every morning. I’ll attach a picture to put a face to the song.”

Too Late

JP: “This song is about the icy ashes of a once raging inferno fire-storm of love making.”

Mr. Rebel

JP: “A cover of the Eddie and the Showmen song. I think it was also a theme song for a Southern California radio DJ in the area around the same time. Our version is closer to the Challengers version. It’s one of my favorite instrumental songs.”

Beat Has Changed

CW: “This song might be the last thing we recorded at Living Room Recordings. It was written in the studio and all we really had time to do was lay out the structure and basic parts. We took the track back our home in Portland and it did a whole 180.

Jason was locked down in the basement finishing the album up and slowly going insane. Every few hours he’d come upstairs either in a rage or super stoked. When he showed us where this song was going we couldn’t believe how awesome it became! I think it’s my favorite song on the album and it’s definitely one of my favourites to play live. Another track about telling a girl to go fuck off.”

Shenanigans

CW: “When we were on tour with Pookie and the Poodlez, Pookie told us about this tour rule that Nobunny has when they tour together.

If you ever see a bar or restaurant or any establishment named Shenanigans you have to stop and order the wackiest drink they have. Even if you’re late for the show. Even if you’re in a tow-truck and you’re van is being towed behind you. We never saw a Shenanigans on that tour unfortunately.”

Boy Like Me

CW: “When we were recording at Living Room Studios in Atlanta, Justin, who works at the studio, would sit in the room while we were recording certain songs and just listen super intensely. Suddenly he’d interrupt and be like “what if you guys tried this?”

It was great cuz he had fresh ears to the songs. We were playing thru this one and Justin says “do a key change for the guitar solo” and pointed to the note he wanted me to jump to. It sounded fucked up and none of us wanted to do it. But It totally made the song way better now.

I think the lyrics are about Jason being into BDSM.”

Do What You Want

CW: “This song is also about BDSM and a girl doing whatever they want to you. All the backup vocals at the end are the dudes from Living Room Studios singing.”