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Album Review: WAVVES' WAVVVES

Mar 10, 2009, 1:10am

WAVVES /// WAVVVES /// FAT POSSUM /// WORDS: LOU WRIGHT /// Has anyone expressed the unique sentiment, the washed-out, abandoned feeling of paradise lost that permeates the youth of Southern California for this century? The Beach Boys did it. The Wipers, the Urinals, and Descendents did it. The Southern Californians who grew up to be our parents had these musicians to codify the ocean's melancholy exuberance and the tricks it works on the young mind. [...]

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