The Surfaris – Wipeout! (VG+/VG+) – LP, AU 1966

Wipeout! is an LP by The Surfaris from 1966 released on the Festival Records label.

About this album

Play distils The Surfaris’ high-speed surf rock into a tough, hooky album built around the enduring rush of “Wipe Out” and other instrumental standouts. Issued in 1963, it followed the group’s breakthrough and helped define the early surf boom with punchy guitar leads, propulsive drums and clean, reverb-heavy arrangements that turned Southern California’s beach sound into a national craze. The album shows why The Surfaris became one of surf rock’s best-known names: concise, energetic and built for movement rather than mood. For listeners tracing the genre’s classic era, it captures the style at the moment it was becoming a pop phenomenon.