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Written by patrik
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Friday, 14 November 2008 11:12 |
 San Diego's Nathan Williams, as Wavves, is a surfed-out, stoned and dethroned breakthrough punk star... And we think we're falling in lust with him.
Citing the Beach Boys, Nirvana, Bad Brains, and Lesley Gore as equal influences, we figure if Phil Spector had never murdered that woman he'd have a new protégé on his hands, and a totally cute one at that. Wavves' stunningly loud recordings mix fuzzy vocals with blown out power chords, surfy guitar riffs, and doo-wop harmonies; a mixture ominously well-conceived for a 22-year-old stoner kid from the beach. The now come-of-age School of Nirvana is yielding a lot of thrashy pop vibrance to the west coast music scene, and this band, in our opinion, may be the next torchbearer of blissed-out angst. His first two releases—a self-titled cassette and a double-single 7"— sold out quickly, foretelling a manic future for Williams. You can keep your Jonases and your Fall Out Boys; we've found a new teen beat and we're ready to ride the Wavves.
Wavves - "So Bored" (mp3)
Wavves - "Wavves" (mp3)
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Wavves (myspace.com)
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