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- Summary: This is the first release on Fat Possum Records for the San Diego-based indie-rock artist.
- Record Label: Fat Possum
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Top Track
| No Hope Kids | |
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| Got no car. Got no money. I got nothing, nothing, nothing, not at all. Got no god. (wah-wah-wah) Got no girlfriend. (wah-wah-wah) I know ? don't... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 24
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Mixed: 7 out of 24
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Negative: 1 out of 24
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Wavvves is about as simple as its author’s pedigree, but wildly more intriguing.
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The incredibly lo-fi production is sweetened by Williams's knack for knocking out gloriously dumb 60s pop melodies.
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The result: an album exuding wall-punching energy, ugly noise, and raging nostalgia for stale bong water and sunburn.
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The music itself is relentlessly blanched in fuzz, an intentionally scuzzy sound that, despite the borderline annoying atmosphere, does less to limit these songs than grant them a claustrophobically dense beauty.
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His melodies, whether delivered in an affected falsetto (closer to Animal Collective than the Beach Boys) or a grumpy baritone, are simple and hummable to a fault--without the energy of the distorted cassette recording, I have a feeling the songs would be a bit too cloying.
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His ability to pump out the music is admirable, now he just needs a filter to sift the crap from the gold. If he hones in on his vision, there's spectacular potential. Until then, we'll have to take the bad with the good or self-compile a "greatest-hits of Wavves 2008/2009" mix tape.
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Q MagazineThere's a sense that he's trying to pass off a lack of ability as some kind of artistic statement. [Aug 2009, p.113]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 2 out of 5
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FerelOApr 6, 2009
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DNewMar 19, 2009No Hope Kids is great. The A.V. Club and P4K got it right.
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TonyNMar 22, 2009This album is solid. Fuck you, Austin Chronicle!
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Mar 2, 2018This review contains spoilers.
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FredRMar 18, 2009Sampled each song and couldn't even listen to them. Fuzz, fuzz and more fuzz. It's gotta be a joke right?
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