Product Description

Led by Nathan Daniel William, who, when not watching Cops or drinking 40's in the park, blogs on classic rap and records waves of effortlessly great slack / crust / beach / punk compressed into 4 track cassettes in his San Diego bedroom.

Track Listing

1. Rainbow Everywhere
2. Sun Opens My Eyes
3. Gun In The Sun
4. So Bored
5. Goth Girls
6. No Hope Kids
7. Weed Demon
8. Beach Deman
9. California Goths
10. Summer Goth
11. Ghost Ramp
12. To The Dregs
13. Killr Punx, Scary Demons
14. Surf Goth

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41216 in Music
• Released on: 2009-03-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .16 pounds

Customer Reviews

nostalgic, without feeling manipulative
It's hard to describe Wavves as 'pop', by any stretch. Just look at the ingredients: layers of reverb, often incomprehensible lyrics, and heavily distorted guitar riffs; all fly in the face of even the most liberal definitions of pop music. But then, you listen to Wavvves (confusing, yes), their second full album, and before long, you realize that there's no way their music can reasonably be described as anything but.

The songs here sound like artifacts of the sixties- somewhere between the straightforward, sugary harmonies that dominated the earlier part of the decade and the heady exoticism of the later psychedelic movement. But Wavves are, at the same time, unmistakably a product of today- working in the same vein as Times New Viking and SoCal neighbors No Age, they use the thick sonic texture that drenches their music as an instrument, itself. The result is something far more interesting than a couple of kids simply reappropriating the sounds of an earlier generation. It's music that keys into some of the most basic ideas of what pop music IS: immediate, affecting, timeless.

Junk
Wavves is a one man noise/low-fi project by San Diego 20-something Nathan Williams. He has received an enormous amount of attention in the indie scene as of late, and has been ravenously touring the world, even exerting himself enough to induce a nervous breakdown this summer.

But let's be real here and call a turd a turd. Stop the madness, just stop it. The woaaaaaah-oh-oh's, the fuzzy pop, the discreetly bad vocals. It's just a bad album riding on the backs of trend. It was in the right place at the right time to produce a remotely fresh sound. In 10 years we will all be saying "Wavves? What's that?". Guaranteed.

noise-pop's finest
This is far overdue. i've loved wavves since their first demos, and this album is a great first lp. It's catchy, but in a subtle way that keeps you engaged. Despite the oddities (see Rainbows Everywhere, etc.) Nathan's pop sensibilities are finely tuned and he keeps it pretty simple. i don't know where they'll move to as they continue recording, but for now i'm loving it. No that was not a McDonalds reference, just a statement about me loving this album. So back off.