Tommy Guerrero
Return Of The Bastard
Galaxia-Platform Records

If you’re uncertain who Tommy Guerrero is by now, you’ve possibly picked up the wrong magazine. This album doles out an aesthetic continuation of 1998’s Loose Grooves & Bastard Blues, which was the freshman record that solidified Guerrero’s presence in the world of music. Smoother than a motor-oil sandwich and just as smooth as his command of the SF streets on his shred appliance, Guerrero’s latest release combines his intelligible jazz-samba-rock tour de force of albums past with the newer soundscape found on later releases like From The Soil To The Soul. “Bloodinthemud” and “Zapata’s Boots” are great songs, and although some of tracks with vocals come off slightly weaker than you’d expect, if listened to in consideration of this albums correlation to TG’s debut Loose Grooves & Bastard Blues, it’s obvious that Guerrero knows what he’s doing and is getting better at it each day. I love Chuck Treece’s contribution to this record, and If you know & respect TG’s saga on or off a skateboard, you ought to pick up all his records in chronological order and skate on to some of the best music life has to offer. – Kelly D. Williams, Mannerist Zine

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