The Sloptones

The Sloptones have been around since 2012, and today the St. Petersburg surf scene would have been incomplete without them. Their wavy music sounds suits just fine at wake-stations in the Gulf of Finland, at vintage car shows and in noisy clubs in the heart of the city. The general public got to hear the surf-rock music thanks to Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” and originally it was the music of Californian youngsters of the 1950s, who loved to ride the Pacific waves to energetic guitar motifs with no lengthy lyrics to interrupt them. The Sloptones take The Ventures’ melody, add some buzzing Dick Dale approved tremolo, and set them into orbit – and beyond! Drifting through the clouds of reverb, their tunes sound as if written for a movie about Martians or an exciting non-fiction story. And what’s more important, the Sloptones’ driving retro-futuristic instrumentals are great to dance to!