Band: Wavves
Label: Green Label Sound
Upcoming Album: King of the Beach [8/2010]
Comments: It’s clean and clear blah blah blah blah blah blah. Wavves has fun with this song clearly and it has a what/the/fuck-i-heard-this-in-the-1990s-on-pop-radio verse-chorus dynamic. It’s brief enough that I do get some pleasure from listening to it. It’s nice to know that this just wasn’t Nathan Williams fucking around on his computer to make this. Or was it? At any rate, it seems like quality mattered on this one. Was the band going for the 1990s pop-rock card or does it just sound that way? It’s memorable, but it fades fast.
Grade: B+
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 
Hmm this is quite fascinating. Based on youtube comments this track has mixed reviews. I do agree w/ the whole 90s commerical pop thang, with the likes of Blink 182 and Green Day, specifically standing out in the vocals. Then again there still is the distortion and what have you in the background, so it’s not quite like those songs. Wavves always had pop sensebilities buried in the background of their music and on their best tracks they were never too hard to find. So, I guess this is somewhat of an extension of that and possible progression? Because as someone commented on youtube, how long can Williams do the whole “unbearable noise” thing? Also, someone said he sounded like Avey Tare. I can see some of that and kudos! because I greatly prefer him over the teeny boppers. This is one of those tracks I want to not like, but I do, it’s just too damn catchy and I dig the departure (at least for one song, who knows what the next album will bring). To be frank, Wavves has always been a band I kinda didn’t want to like, but they just suck you in. In many ways, the music, especially in lyrical themes, just comes off as stereotypical. Like “No Hope Kids,” sounds like a retarded concept for an emo song we’ve already heard, but it’s not. It’s insanely catchy and therefore amazing.
Hopefully, they play this at the show, which is not too far away.