Wavves

To call Wavvves a carbon copy of the dude's self-titled debut is an understatement. In addition to near-identical titles and cover pix, both albums are primitive blasts of lo-fi bubblegum -- "Fun, Fun, Fun" fed through psycho-delic static lunacy and teenage hormonal restlessness. Even track names are kind of the same. Most of them allude to surf, sun, beaches, California, summer, kids, boredom and, uh, goths. So yeah, Nathan Williams is a one-trick pony and damn proud of it. Good for him!

Wavves auteur Nathan Williams is another acolyte in indie rock's Church of Brian Wilson.
But where, say, Animal Collective's Beach Boy harmonies abandon themselves to the
psychedelic sea, Williams' woozy punk pop sounds like it's constantly fighting riptides. The
San Diego native's second album, Wavvves — released on Fat Possum, former home of the
Black Keys — is bad–trip music for cloudless days: surging distortion, sun–dazed... More >