Blog: The Sky Report

In less than 30 minutes, Nathan Daniel Williams (aka Wavves) takes you on a mind-bending ride through layers and layers of deep distortion and nihilistic doom on his second LP, aptly titled Wavvves . Carrying on with the recent trend of Southern California nu-punk outfits (No Age, Health, Crystal Antlers), Wavves challenges the boundaries of this exploding genre, infusing it with a twisted intellectualism that directly contradicts itself. This shotgun of an album gets started with the disorienting ambience of instrumental prelude "Rainbow Everywhere", a fitting opening for the controlled chaos that ensues. "Sun Opens My Eyes" [...]