WAVVES
Interview: 7.1
Music
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CATCHING WAVVES
wordsby saelan twerdy
Wavves is a pure product of California: equal parts Black Flag and the Beach Boys, this one-man band (22-year-old San Diego native Nathan Williams) filters irrepressible sun-baked melodies through the warped warble of primitive home recording techniques. His poppy, blown-out punk jams capture the whole range of classic teenage rock n’ roll tropes. For example, the cover of Wavves’ first self-titled EP features a washed-out photo of a kid skateboarding on a wooden wheelbarrow in the sunshine, while the Beach Demon/Weed Demon 7-inch comes adorned with two hands clad in leather biker gloves holding a long-haired face that’s smoking a joint. That’s the Wavves vibe all the way: disaffected angst and reckless fun at the same time. The album is the same way, ranging from shouted anthems that leap out of the speakers (preferably from your ancient car stereo) with quieter, Beat Happening-esque tunes and quasi-ambient drone tracks of casually picked guitar and loopy, bleepy synthesizers.
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