BARREL STATIC
GRIME SURF ROCK • ORANGE COUNTY • 1986–1989
STATIC IN THE TIDE
WAVES AND WHEELS
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA – 1986
Barrel Static Albums
Discography

Albums

Two records. Three years. A sound that still echoes under the Huntington pier.

Album 01
Static in the Tide Album Cover

Static in the Tide

Released August 1987

The debut LP that started it all. Eleven tracks of surf rock bones and grime-heart percussion. Waves, street racing, tar-stained beaches, fights, danger, breakups, wipeouts, and the kind of OC nights that never fully left.

Tracklist

  1. South Swell Surge The album opener. Reverb-drenched surf guitar rises like a growing swell. Grime kick pulses underneath until everything explodes. Feels like a wave about to swallow you whole.
  2. Static in the Tide Title track. Emotional, atmospheric, powerful. Female lead + male backing. Surf melody + grime percussion + ocean-field-recordings. The defining Barrel Static sound.
  3. Neon Breaker The breakout hit. Built from Mira's field recordings of metal rattling in Santa Ana winds. Pirate radio aired a bootleg — launched the band overnight. Fast, bright, dangerous.
  4. Wipeout // Blackout Male lead with female backing. Jett's drum showcase: punk-grime hybrid. Distorted sliding bass + chaotic fills. A song about wiping out in the water and in the streets.
  5. Laguna Ghostlights Haunting instrumental. Dane's reverb-soaked guitar floats through foggy Laguna cliffs at 2 a.m. Minimal drums, deep sub-bass, eerie synth drones.
  6. Kook Patrol (After Dark) High-energy surf-punk attitude. Teases clueless surfers ("kooks") who clog the lineup after sunset. Fun, fast, snotty.
  7. PCH at 90 Built on Bryce's engine-rumble bass tone. Feels like racing down the Pacific Coast Highway after midnight.
  8. Saltwater Bruises Slow surf-grime ballad. Kai and Lana trade aching harmonies. The bruises are emotional and physical — the ocean hits hard.
  9. Barrelhouse Riot Starts with a lone ukulele before erupting into a bar-fight anthem. Metallic samples from Mira. Pure chaos live.
  10. Pierlight Fever Summery, nostalgic, shimmering surf riffs with grime crackle underneath. Dreamy but unstable — like falling in love on the pier rails.
  11. The Break, the Fall, the Rise The closing track. Slow build → massive swell of sound → cathartic finale. A metaphor for the band's entire formation: the break, the fall, the rise.
Holiday Single
Carol of Bells Single Cover

Carol of Bells

Released December 1989

A dark, high-energy Grime Surf Rock reimagining of "Carol of the Bells," turning a classic Christmas carol into a haunting, neon-lit OC coastline anthem.

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Album 02
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Waves and Wheels

Released July 1989

Darker, faster, late-'80s Grime Surf Rock that fuses coastal danger with midnight street-racing energy. The band's most chaotic and electric era captured in one bruised, high-octane album.

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Tracklist

  1. Tumble in the Lineup A high-energy grime-surf anthem about chasing the perfect Huntington Beach wave, wiping out hard, and fighting through the chaos of the swell with pure '80s SoCal grit.
  2. Seal Beach After Midnight A nocturnal grime-surf rush about Eddie tearing into a violent midnight swell at Seal Beach, where neon, danger, and OC nightlife collide with the raw power of the waves.
  3. Barrel Static (Instrumental) A dark, rising grime-surf instrumental that builds from moody, night-coast tension into a full crashing drop, blending wet surf guitars and heavy sliding bass into a wave that feels like the band's entire sound detonating at once.
  4. Waves & Wheels A slow-burn grime-surf duet about a skater girl from Santa Ana and a surfer boy from Laguna Beach fighting to stay together as their two worlds collide across the neon-lit nights of 1980s Orange County.
  5. IROC Wave & Midnight Races A high-velocity grime-surf anthem about a Newport Beach kid who lives for sunrise waves and midnight street races, tearing down PCH in his red IROC-Z as the coast becomes his proving ground.
  6. Circle Pit Riptide Hardcore punk + surf-grime. Frenetic, violent, sweaty backyard-show energy mixed with HB shorebreak chaos. Feels like dodging elbows and waves at the same time.
  7. Locals Only / No One Safe A two-part track. Part 1: Snotty, territorial surf-punk about crowded breaks and HB surf gangs. Part 2: Darker, heavier halftime groove—grime electronics + metal riffing—about the danger that creeps into OC nights.
  8. Breakwater Breakneck The album's fastest track. Blast-beat grime percussion fused with surf-metal tremolo. Feels like charging straight into a massive wave during a storm. Pure chaos, pure thrill.
  9. Runoffs & Rebellion A dark, heavy track blending late-80s metal chug riffs, surf tremolo accents, and atmospheric grime. Lyrically about beach pollution, storm-drain runoff, and OC surfers fighting back. Angry, cinematic, and massive.
  10. Laguna Breakpoint A surf-noir metal/grime hybrid—haunted, driving, emotional. Set in the shadowed canyon curves of Laguna at night. The perfect closer: moody, dangerous, and echoing long after it ends.