Wavves ‘King of The Beach’
I saw Wavves at The Deaf Institue last winter, and amidst the mass hype i’d already heard from hipster blogs online, it’s fair to say, they delivered and met expectations. In fact they rocked prety much most of the crowds Indie/Topman crazy socks. Off. Their sound is huge and live is ear bleedingly loud with their hardware setup not conventional to the usual fx pedal graduate. Somethings being compressed, turned up, into the red noise, something rather ingenius, and whatever fiddling about’s gone on, the sound coming out of Nathan Wavves amp - that’s probably a discovery on his away behalf, accidental or not - is totally ‘rad’. The Californian’s release their third album this week on Fat Possum, and guess what, it’s marvellous. A complete step away from the previous two, the band find themselves fully embracing the surf pop sound that shimmered in the background of the last two. Not to say they have ditched their fuzz/noise roots, but more have had a ‘clean up’ and fine tuned a few things. Lyrically the band have progressed too, with the vocal content no longer being all about ‘pizza and skateboards’ as the band themselves put it. Download the first single ‘Post Acid’ via Pasta Primavera below -
Wavves ‘Post Acid’
