Album Reviews – Martin Cilia – Australia's Premier Surf Rock Guitarist

Review: Continental Magazine #38 – Here Comes The Sun

May 10, 2025

Martin Cilia – Here Comes The Sun CD(Surfersaurus) ★★★★½ Famed Australian guitarist, with years of experience in The Atlantics, Mental As Anything and The Radiators, is probably best known amongst instrumental rock and surf fans […]

Pipeline #130 Review: Martin Cilia – Here Comes The Sun

April 21, 2025

Surfersaurus SUR2024; Australia 2024; 58 minHere Comes The Sun / Nowhere Man / I’ve Just Seen A Face / Something / Glass Onion / Let It Be / While My Guitar Gently Weeps / Birthday […]

Pipeline Instrumental Review Issue 127

March 7, 2024

The latest album from Australian guitarist Martin Cilia, best known to us as the lead player with The Atlantics, packs quite a punch. Martin recorded all of the guitar parts himself but was joined by […]

Continental Magazine Review

March 7, 2024

This 2024 release by Australian guitarist Martin Cilia, despite the title, is really a journey from the beginnings of surf and instrumental rock instrumentals all the way to today’s modern surf sound. As you listen […]

Pipeline Magazine: Issue 124 Spring 2023

March 26, 2023

A great review of 6 Track EP, as well as The Atlantics Still Making Waves from our friends in England, as well as No.1 & 6 on the playlist!

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Pacific Longboarder: The Atlantics “Still Making Waves” 60 years on!

January 26, 2023

Believe it or not, Australia’s surf-music super group The Atlantics has just released a new album of all-new original songs. Jim, Martin & Bosco – even Peter Hood can be heard on the closing track. […]

Noise 11: Mental As Anything Guitarist Martin Cilia Releases Solo Instrumental ‘Live It Up’

October 30, 2022

Martin Cilia, Mental As Anything guitarist from 2015 to 2019, has released a solo instrumental version of the Mental As Anything classic ‘Live It Up’. Martin says, “Having played this song many many times with […]

Australian Musician: Martin Cilia Delivers Everest in Lockdown

September 15, 2021

Greg Phillips Sep 14, 2021 Original Link: https://australianmusician.com.au/martin-cilia-delivers-everest-in-lockdown/ Martin Cilia, Australia’s premier surf guitarist & member of legendary surf band, The Atlantics and guitarist with Mental As Anything has spent his lockdown wisely, releasing Everest, a […]

Guitar World review: This week’s essential guitar tracks

September 6, 2020

A mutual love of the Shadows brought these big-name Aussie guitarists together for a new instrumental that stays true to the quintessential surf sound. As you’d expect, cavernous spring reverb and fat single-note lines are […]

Noise11 review: Martin Cilia and Joe Matera To Team For Instrumental Surf Collaboration

September 4, 2020

Martin Cilia and Joe Matera To Team For Instrumental Surf Collaborationby PAUL CASHMERE on SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 During the Covid lockdowns Sydney’s Martin Cilia and Melbourne’s Joe Matera have teamed to remotely record a couple […]

Night Star in Vintage Guitar Magazine

December 24, 2019

Enjoy Australian surf legend Martin Cilia and his ’61 Strat (in Olympic White with green guard) playing “Night Star,” from his new album, “Shadowman.” He’s running through a vintage Fender reverb tank and Boss DM2 […]

Shadowman Review: Vintage Guitar, Dec 2019

November 7, 2019

Australian guitarist Cilia joined noted surf band the Atlantics in 1998, but his roots go much deeper. He spent his first 10 years in England, where he saw clips of the Shadows on TV. After […]

Review: Pipeline Magazine, Issue 112

July 12, 2019

Interview: Pacific Longboarder, Volume 21 Issue 4

June 24, 2019

An interview in the latest issue of Pacific Longboarder, and a review of Shadowman.

What’s My Scene: Electric Christmas album review

October 19, 2015

Review Scene: Electric Christmas (CD) – Martin Cilia, 2015 By Sharon Brookes, What’s My Scene Magazine 17th September 2015 The flowers are blooming, the weather is warming and our thoughts turn to the festive season and […]

August 2007: Reverb Central

February 1, 2015

Reverb Central http://www.reverbcentral.com/ Martin Cilia – Revenge Of The Surf Guitar August 2007 Bombora Like I told Martin when I first dropped Revenge Of The Surf Guitar into my player – “Wow!” This album is […]

January 2010: Reverb Central

February 1, 2015

Reverb Central http://www.reverbcentral.com/ Martin Cilia – The Odd One Out January 2010 Bombora Atlantics‘ guitarist Martin Cilia‘s new CD ventures far afield from the surf sounds of Oz’s principal progenitors of the aquatic sound. While […]

November 2009: New Gandy Dancer magazine

February 1, 2015

Reviews for The Odd One Out New Gandy Dancer, November 2009 4/4 Stars NGD 5629 MARTIN CILIA The Odd One Out Bombora Records 21 Australia (www.mandyh40.sg-host.com) Revitalised Atlantics guitar king Martin on another solo set […]

May 2013: KFJC 89.7FM, California

June 5, 2013

KFJC 89.7 FM Cilia, Martin – “Surfersaurus” – [Bombora Creative] Martin Cilia is known as a very fine surf guitarist from Australia, for his work with the Australian surf band The Atlantics, and for his […]

June 2013: Pacific Longboarder Vol

June 1, 2013

Review: Going To Kaleponi, Martin Cilia Released on the BOMBORA label April 2013 “Gardner McKay meets Clint Eastwood”. Okay, a personal trip here for me. GOING TO KALEPONI, Martin Cilia’s fourth CD for David Minear’s […]

April 2013: New Gandy Dancer, Issue 111

April 1, 2013

New Gandy Dancer, Issue 111, April 2013

March 2013: Surf Rock Music

March 1, 2013

Surf Explosion Surf Explosion Reviewed by: Stephen L. Robbins If you play guitar for the legendary Atlantics, you have to be good. Extremely good. Enter Martin Cilia. Extremely good doesn’t begin to cover things when […]

March 2013: Surf Guitar 101

March 1, 2013

Surf Explosion March 4th 2013 By Noel Spiteri Martin Cilia is one of those guitarists who is able to use a guitar to do anything he wants. ‘Surf Explosion’ is an accurate description of the […]

January 2012: ABC: Album of the week

January 1, 2012

ABC Central Victoria – Album of the week Feature Album 23 – 27 January 2012 January 27, 2012 , 1:37 PM by Jo Printz It’s summer, Australia has a long-held surfing tradition, so why not […]

October 2011: Rhythms Magazine

October 1, 2011

Rhythms Magazine Review October 2011, page 71 MARTIN CILIA SURFERSAURUS BOMBORA “There is something very pleasing about listening to a musician doing what he or she loves. Guitarist Martin Cilia doesn’t just love classic surf […]

Return of the Jaguar

September 27, 2011

Around 2006 Martin got a phone call to demonstrate some guitar sounds for ABC’s The Collectors TV show. He had original versions of all the guitars they wanted to demo, except for one – a […]

August 2011: Pacific Longboarder Vol 15

August 1, 2011

Surfersaurus review in Pacfic Longboarder August 2011, Volume 15 Review by Stephen McParland, surf music historian and author