
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 [...]