With the opening track - which consists of nothing but synth noise - Wavves aka 22-year-old Nathan Daniel William succeeds in thoroughly pissing me off in less than one minute. Granted, it’s not given to many but this guy passes the test with flying colours.
From there on things get slightly better with songs about being bored (“So Bored”) and goth girls (“Goth Girls”, “Summer Goth”, “Beach Goth”) and demons (“Beach Demon”, “Killr Punx, Scary Demons”). Yup, the guy apparently has heaps of inspiration when it comes to naming songs. The songs themselves are basically pop songs with sunny hooks buried under layers of noise and then further fucked up by a lo-lo-lo-lo-fi production that brings Sebadoh’s first albums to mind.
Shitgaze they call it. It’s not pure shit but it does make me wonder why this guy can’t record like normal people. A lot of it is posturing and doing it for the sake of coming across as artsy I guess. But hey, remember the things we did to come across as cool when we were that young?
Score: 6 out of 10
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