Wavves - Wavvves

Wavvves

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


For the uninitiated, a quick google or search on your music site of choice will bring up results such as, "Pop noise" or "Beach punk" for Californian artist, Wavves. However, boxing this album into such specific genres is difficult and frankly, needless. Wavvves is simply a big silly mess.

First of all, the "Pop" part. I doubt we'll be seeing an Annie Lennox collab any time soon. This is fuzzy guitar drenched treacle. The brief noisebites crash and burn wiith grizzly guitar melodies and flickers of delay. It does share a similarity with pop music however in that it is shamelessly fun. Much like the Cows album, it can be hard at times to remember why you're listening to this. Gratification is far from instant with this album, but it pays off in the end. Whilst noise feasts like Rainbow Everywhere and Killr Punx, Scary Demons are acceptable and neccessary to build up walls of fuzz and add an unsettling atmosphere, there's slightly too many tracks like this. Wavves is at his best when delivering snappy punk such as Beach Demon, To The Dregs, or album highlight So Bored.

And these tracks are the dogs balleex. It's the sort of music you ought to stick on really loud to piss off your mates when you're still drunk, and they're sober as a judge. Or when you're asked to pick a song for a family event and for some reason want to offend every single one of your relatives. On their own these tracks can flounder and you'll just look like a twat; you need to listen to this album in its entirety or in clumps of songs to fully appreciate. Listening to this record under altered states of mind would also help, (omgsubstanceabusez) leaving the noisey bits rendered less offensive and the squealy punk bites all the more glorious. Still, the reason the more tuneful numbers are so pleasing is that they contrast with the noisey 3 minute meat cleavers so well. And of course, one can't be intoxicated all the time, right?!?

Hmmm.

7.9/10