Blog: State Magazine

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 [...]