Wavves: Horse shoes (Single, 2011)

En TJB no nos hemos vuelto locos ni nos hemos equivocado con este nuevo tema de Wavves cuando ayer mismo os posteábamos otro tema editado por Nathan en su blog. Esta vez el medio elegido ha sido su Twitter, y este es otro de esos temas que al chico le ha dado por regalar. Evidentemente, a los que nos gustó su primer álbum estamos de enhorabuena, aunque  este Horse shoes no está demasiado a la altura. En su grabación ha colaborado Zach Hill a la batería. Supongo que si sigue a este ritmo, en breve aparecerá otro nuevo tema, aunque personalmente pienso que llevar el ritmo de edición de Deerhunter no es nada bueno…

Wavves – Horse shoes (Single, 2011)

“Wavves have been busy lately, touring, working on their own strain of weed, and releasing new music for free. According to Spin, Wavves’ Nathan Williams is planning on releasing more on his own, and will turn some of them into 7-inches sometime in the future. He released his ode to time-wasting, “TV Luv Song,” last week, and “Horse Shoes” came via his Twitter account today. “Horse Shoes” features Zach Hill on drums” (stereogum.com)

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Wavves: Mutant (Single, 2011)

Otro de los personajes que no para es Natan Williams, líder de Wavves. Primero se nos ha enamorado de Bethany Cosentino (¡¡maldito!!), se han embarcado en una gira conjunta que les lleva también con No Joy. Sus discos están teniendo bastante éxito en Japón, y para acompañar a su tremendo King of the beach, ha publicado en su blog este animoso tema titulado Mutant, que según sus propias palabras, “en algún momento puede ser un7″. Total, un buen tema que echarse a la boca si eres uno de los seguidores (como yo) que Wavves ha conseguido cosechar este soleado verano del 2010. Puedes descargarte el tema de forma gratuita y legal pinchando en el enlace.

Wavves – Mutant (Single, 2011)

“Nathan Williams recently posted a download of a song called “Mutant” on his blog. As he put it: “['Mutant'] might be on a 7″ soon. It’s a b side on the japanese pressing of king of the beach.” When we posted Best Coast’s Fallon performance, we mentioned another single, the “Summer Is Forever” split, featuring BC’s “When You Wake Up” and Wavves’s “Stained Glass (Won’t You Let Me Into Yr Heart).” Listen to Wavves “Summer” contribution after grabbing “Mutant” (stereogum.com)

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Wavves: King of the Beach, Live (from King of the Beach, 2010)

Wavves: King of the Beach (2010)

 

A estas alturas del verano me estaba planteando ya no postear este tercer disco de Wavves, pero creo que todos los que leéis el blog os merecéis que aparezca una reseña de uno de los discos del año. El proyecto de Nathan Williams va tomando forma cada vez con más configuración de banda (ha reclutado a la que fuera banda de acompañamiento del malogrado Jay Reatard), y sus discos cada vez son algo más que un mero entretenimiento para skeaters furibundos. King of the Beach es un gran disco, con variedad de tonalidades. Destacable ante todo es su faceta más iracunda y bestia: King of the Beach, Super soaker, Idiot, Post acid, Linus Spacehead… son trallazos del mejor Pop-Punk a la manera de hacer las cosas en Los Ángeles, con luminosidad poppera y con el personal estilo de Williams, mezclando el Lo-Fi con el Post-Punk: Brillante. Por otro lado, nos encontramos con temas Pop que no llevan consigo esa adrenalina con acné: Take on the world, Convertible balloon, Green eyes, Baby say goodbye, son cortes mucho más calmados, cercanos al Indie-Pop de toda la vida. Y por último, nos encontramos con tres temas que son algo así como la vuelta a la infancia de este californiano con pinta de post-adolescente: When will you come, Mickey Mouse y Baseball cards, tres temas en los que la influencia de los Beach Boys es más que latente, pero que son temas auténticamente enternecedores, particularmente When will you come, que más parece una nana que un tema de Pop, pero que tiene un sonido realmente entrañable. Disco, en definitiva, más que aprovechable, y que pasa a formar parte de nuestros favoritos del año, y supongo que también de los de muchos de vosotros.

Wavves – King of the Beach

“The first time we covered Wavves was two years ago in The Outsiders, where Williams’ project was included and spotlighted for a specific non-outsider-y reason. Basically, he nailed every aspect of the zeitgeist/was a buzz-band shoe-in:

This week I’m giving the entire spotlight to Wavves, the one-man project of 22-year-old San Diego-based Nathan Williams partly because he makes fuzzy, loopy 4-track bedroom skate-punk/noise-pop, but also because he seems like he’s ready to explode from the starter gate with two upcoming records and a groundswell of buzz (and his own knack for melody, the current fascination with DIY culture, etc). Wavves could easily be discounted as No Age Jr., but when you spend time with his songs, they develop a very different, more insular feeling. It’s music that might have stayed “outside” even a couple of years ago, but at this point, you can already tell it’s on a “new big thing” verge.

Explode he did. That said, you can no longer use the No Age Jr. tag as successfully. And it’s harder to think of the work as insular now that he’s recording/writing with bassist Stephen Pope and drummer Billy Hayes, the guys who used to backup another up-and-down rocker, Jay Reatard. All that said, it’s refreshing to step back and look at Wavves music as music, not a sociological experiment.
King Of The Beach is a good record, a great summer soundtrack. Outside the title, there’s a song called “Super Soaker” and we get lyrics/sentiments touching on surfing, staying young forever, having fun, beach-side whistling, etc. There’s also plenty of self-loathing and depression (see “Take On The World,” “Green Eyes,” etc.), but it comes out in the sunniest way possible: Pair King with Best Coach’s Crazy For You, hot wire a convertible (there’s also “Convertible Balloon,” a song about carrying a balloon in a convertible), and go joyful road trip.
You’ve heard “Mickey Mouse,” “Post Acid,” and the title track. Elsewhere, the fuzz remains, but it’s been dialed back and folded into additional layers. The percussion is more varied. The textures offer more details and patterns. The songs feel fleshier, less solo: Wavves has become a real band, whch serves Williams’s knack for sunny, catchy melody. (Hayes wrote “Convertible Balloon” and “Baby Say Goodbye,” Pope the bass-heavy “Linus Spacehead.”)
Wavves’ anthems are generally infused with a touch of disengagement/”So Bored” ennui. Here, you get sonically downcast moments that go deeper with their emotions and introspection — the soaring, jingle-belled “When Will You Come” and similarly downcast, pretty standout “Baseball Cards” (this one also fits with “Mickey Mouse” in the Animal Collective-esque realm), and the lovesick “Green Eyes” (“I’m just not man enough… / My own friends hate me, but I don’t give a shit”) nail a melancholia he doesn’t quite tap on the first two records. The sequencing’s also stronger: Tunes fade in and out of each other and move cohesively toward the chirpy-then-phased 5-minute closer “Baby Say Goodbye.” You get 12 songs in just under 40 minutes. It feels shorter … in the way good albums do.
You have to hand it to Williams: Last year he was in danger of turning into a punchline — even his biggest supporters hung him out to dry — but instead of fading, he got himself a talented rhythm section, allowed them to contribute fully, and opted to work with a producer known for being a bit of a control freak. As Nathan notes in the press release:

When you’re not watering it down with a load of shit and reverb, it’s a lot harder to make a record, because you know every part is going to be hard perfectly. You can’t half-ass anything … A lot more effort went into this than with previous records.

Breaking a sweat may seem ironic or poseur-y considering the slacker nature of Williams’ aesthetic, but despite what they want you to think, the most interesting punks are often the ones who’ve worked the hardest. Extra effort doesn’t always pay off, Axl Rose, but this time it did: A lot of people will be eating crow after listening to King Of The Beach” (insound.com)

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