Review Revue: The Surrealists - Where's Dada?

Welcome to Review Revue, where every Thursday I dig through the KEXP stacks to share DJ reviews and comments written on the covers of LPs (and occasionally CDs) in the ’80s and ’90s, when the station was called KCMU, the DJs were volunteers, and people shared their opinions on little white labels instead of the internet.

Well, I'm afraid there's just not that much information out there about the Seattle band The Surrealists and their 1989 12" EP Where's Dada? — beyond the fact that they were a Seattle band, and it's a 12" EP from 1989. We do know, thanks to the obsession with him in the comments below, that a shadowy figure known as Erik 4-A was an important part of this band. He appears to have gone on to a long and semi-illustrious local music production career, including work with such acts as The Boss Martians, the Green Pajamas, and The Queen Annes. More recently, according to a source, he was making music under the moniker Howlin' Houndog. And yes, this blog post could not have come to you without the support of Discogs.com, so thanks to them for most of the scanty information we do have. For the rest, we'll turn it over to those who were there at the time.