Los Straitjackets: Jet Set (Yep Roc, 8/7/12)
“Space Mosquito”
Los Straitjackets: “Space Mosquito”
Every team gets a shot in the arm from the return of its leader, and the same must hold true for instrumental surf-rock quartet Los Straitjackets. Buoyed by the return of guitarist Danny Amis from a battle with multiple myeloma — a plasma-cell cancer that manifests in bone marrow — the ‘Jackets are back, luchador masks in hand (er…on face).