Music Banter - Wavves

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Originally Posted by Stu (Post 756975)

People dont like Wavves for their textured, epic works of art, it's disposable, trashy and raw as - and thats why people like it. Whether their music is boring or not is just down to every individual listeners personal tastes i guess.

i can definitely understand where you're coming from. I just dont really think its that trashy or raw, i think its just really ****ty recording with really ****ty musicianship and really ****ty song structure lol. I love trashy raw music like durga, or jihad. But this doesn't give me any enjoyment. 99% of me wonders if the only reason people like this band is because pitchfork is all over their nuts while .5% of me wonders if I'm missing something while the other .5% of me accepts that I can't get into them purely because im just not a hipster.

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Originally Posted by bardonodude (Post 757053)

i cant argue the ****ty musicianship or production. however, it has good structure. some people dont dig on shitgaze. you appear to be one of those people.

This may sound odd, but i love the ****ty musicianship and ****ty production, as i said, its so trashy and i find it refreshing. Theres so much energy in this approach i think.Its something you can just listen to and completely shut off. And i do think the songs are well structured. At the end of the day its different strokes for different folks, bands like Wavves, Eat Skull, Times New Viking and Railcars just do it for me when im in a certain mood.

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Originally Posted by bardonodude (Post 757053)

i can definitely understand where you're coming from. I just dont really think its that trashy or raw, i think its just really ****ty recording with really ****ty musicianship and really ****ty song structure lol. I love trashy raw music like durga, or jihad. But this doesn't give me any enjoyment. 99% of me wonders if the only reason people like this band is because pitchfork is all over their nuts while .5% of me wonders if I'm missing something while the other .5% of me accepts that I can't get into them purely because im just not a hipster.

this. there's a difference between raw and lacking effort. wavves strike me as the kind of guys that caught on to this whole noise-pop thing and said "hey i can do that too". fuzz out everything i record and it sounds "noisy"; no, it sounds like you aren't even trying

calling wavves' albums "epic works of art" is insulting to the things that people have genuinely put effort into creating.

If you look really carefully, you'll notice that no one actually called wavves' albums epic works of art...

hahah oh **** i totally misread that... my bad stu.

The new album is WAYYYYY better than the previous one. Then again, I thought Wavvves was absolutely laughable, but still. If he keeps it up, he could genuinely be good one day.

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Originally Posted by clutnuckle (Post 887528)

The new album is WAYYYYY better than the previous one. Then again, I thought Wavvves was absolutely laughable, but still. If he keeps it up, he could genuinely be good one day.

why bother hearing the 2nd if the 1st was laughably bad? personally i try to steer clear of stuff i don't like. but thanks for the protip about the leak :)

really digging the new album.

i hope people who didn't like wavvves or didn't like nathan being a lil' pussy at his live show don't just ignore this album. it's extremely different and extremely varied. it's like this weird mix of blink 182, no age, and hell..animal collective. potential to be the album of the summer for me.