Wavvves

Wavves | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 17, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fat Possum
• ASIN: B001QWEE1C
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,003 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars nostalgic, without feeling manipulative, July 24, 2009

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N. Spadaro (San Francisco, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wavvves (Audio CD)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars The formula for Wavves:, February 11, 2010

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Dave (Missouri, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wavvves (Audio CD)

Take equal parts The Ventures and Surfaris, add in the tracks from Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, stir real thoroughly and this is what you get. Good experimental sunshine music! Definately recommended!

11 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Junk, November 2, 2009

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CT - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wavvves (Audio CD)

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.