We have a special love for Focus Creeps, the directorial duo of Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell, who’ve been responsible for videos like Girls‘ “Lust for Life” and “Hellhole Rat Race,” Cass McCombs‘ “Executioner’s Song,” Neon Indian’s “Sleep Paralysist” and plenty more. With each new video they direct, they’ll be giving FADER a special behind [...]
The masses, myself included, have been anticipating the new release from California punks Wavves for quite some time now. The wait is nearly over, King of the Beach will be available in the coming weeks in several different formats. You can grab it digitally on iTunes July 1, other digital download stores will have it available on July 13. If your like me, and prefer having the physical vinyl LP in your possession we'll have to wait until August 3. In the meantime, Wavves is streaming the whole album over at label head Fat Possum's website . [...]
This Christmas week we are counting down our top 50 albums of 2009 taken from the personal lists of 35 of the State writers and photographers. No doubt, there will be tears, spilled milk, outcry, acceptance and surprises along the way. We hope you find something you overlooked in the course of the year. Our 40 to 31 list sees the first and last appearance of a compilation, a revered indie rapper, an experimental English shape-shifting popster, Africa's best Western-influenced band, an R&B legend, a "bored" US scuzzy-rocker and a forward-looking retro dance album. Albums of 2009: [...]
The man bloggers love to hate brings his sloppy Cali pop to Atlanta
I wrote about the Vivian Girls' new ouput a few days ago; the more I think about it, the more it seems that the band I'm writing about today, Wavves, have, to some extent, been the Vivian Girls of 2009. Sonic and geographical similarities aside, they've had similarly rocky roads into 'hypedom'. These days most bands that arrive on this hallowed ground do it something this: Gain some rep through a few blogs, get blown up from relative obscurity after a few favourable write-ups in some of the higher [...]
New Wavvves video for "No Hope Kids"
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Technically summer doesn't start until next month, but my long tenure in college and regular association with students leads me to consider May as the beginning of the summer. To celebrate the coming of the season, I'm about to take a nice little week vacation at the beach, so I figured I would leave you readers with a summery mixtape to jam while I'm gone. Here at Ohmpark we have some exciting things coming soon. Bonnaroo is now less than a month away and we will have total coverage for you. Then Corndogorama is right around the corner. And after [...]
Wavves - Weed Demon After having this song rattling around in my head all evening, I checked to see if I had featured it before only to find that I hadn't blogged about Wavves at all, which I can't explain. I'm astonished. Given how long I've had the self-titled album, the fuzzy bedroom pop of Nathan Williams should have warranted several mentions by now. Williams is based in San Diego, signed to Fat Possum (Bella Union in the UK) and has enough tracks of lo-fi 'beach punk' to produce various different versions of his [...]
Apr 29, 2009, 6:14pm
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On P4k's Daytrippin' with Wavves Ryan tells Stories! about how he met the Weed Demon. Then Nathan continues in an interview to say he doesn't believe in heaven and would be smoking crack if not for his music. Nathan and Ryan are definitely our kind of guys. Nathan meets Bun B in Part 2 after the jump... Wavves - Weed Demon and for the hell of it... Lil' Wayne - Pussy, Money, Weed RLTD [...]
Wavves is Nathan Williams with recent reinforcement from drummer Ryan Ulish. They will play a special early show on Wednesday at the Echo, but they spoke even earlier with L.A. RECORD 's Daniel Clodfelter. And don't miss Dan Collins' review of Wavvves on this run-up to Wavves Weddnesday.
Some reviewers seem to be approaching Nathan Williams’ band Wavves with caution because of his similarities to more successful noise bands, when what this dude really needs is a high-five and some nurturing love to help him move into the more original style he hints at—and sometimes really nails—with Wavvves . Some songs on here are repeats of what we’ve seen before—even repeats of each other. But the album still really rocks and shines, and could shine more if Williams could be encouraged to dive head first into his own headspace.
Nathan Daniel Williams likes the letter ‘v’: he’s added another one to the middle of his band’s name for this second album, following last year’s Wavves . The San Diego native makes decidedly difficult music, taking elements of Dinosaur Jnr, My Bloody Valentine and ’60s’ surf pop and putting it through an industrial blender so the output is fuzzier, noisier and more dislocated than an argument between a gaggle of demented Polar bears. Sometimes it works spectacularly, like the nervous energy of ‘Beach Demon’, the dreamy cacophony of slacker anthem ‘So Bored’ or the sun-kissed doo-wop [...]
Wavves is one man, San Diego's Nathan Williams, depicted above as a bat creature. In the image we see him flying into hell, challenging the devil to a noise-pop guitar duel. The drawing was inspired by the number of Wavves songs about demons: "Weed Demon," "Beach Demon," "Killr Punx, Scary Demons." But it wasn't until [...]
This is a sunny, beach pop album...on peyote. Yes, there are some vibrant melodies and pop nuggets to be found on this release, but they are buried beneath so much harsh sounding fuzz. What this really sounds like is a slightly more straight-forward pop version of No Age. Or, even better, slightly experimental indie rock drenched in digital fuzz.
Wavves Wavvves is a heavily distorted, extremely lo-fi deconstructed noise-punk record of awesomeness. Clocking in at just over 36 minutes, San Diego based Nathan Williams blasts through the 14 song record with an appropriate punk crispness. When describing this album to my sister I told her that it was lo-fi, heavily distorted guitars, heavily distorted vocals, noise-punk, with ultra simple lyrics that aren't very deep. She responded that it sounded terrible. I assured her that this record was very good and despite her trepidations, just because something is lo-fi or distorted doesn't make it bad, and [...]
Mar 29, 2009, 6:10pm Fmly
[Photo via Ethan Sacks ] Covered this track on a whim today. Wavves is a one-man noise/punk/bro from SD, so I went reallyreally raw on the mix and all that [Peter, Anamanaguchi] New York blipstars Anamanaguchi answered the prayers we should have asked for by delivering a cover of Wavves ' "So Bored." Matching Nathan's intensity and earning bonus points for creativity, Anamanaguchi have given us a must download that is certain to appease lo-fi and 8bit fans alike. Don't forget to peep and [...]
WWTB? We’ve missed it the last couple of weeks, but better late than never, here are this week’s recommended releases. (Brief explanation/excuse: I have been tasked with doing this post, but have been busy the last week or so, having just moved to the US.) The links here go to Amazon. MSTRKRFT - Fist of God (buy the CD / MP3s ) Wavvves - Wavvves (buy the CD / MP3s ) Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Beware (buy the CD [...]
MP3: Wavves - So Bored Noise music doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Maybe I’ve been reading too much existential philosophy, but I’ve come to the realization that noise isn’t something a person can understand. Upon full comprehension of the music, you humanize it; you make it your own. You make it something that it’s not. Noise music is irrational; it’s not supposed to make sense. Once you can claim to know it, you’ve gone about understanding something other than what the sound waves dictate. [...]
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