Distortion packing
Posted by Patrik Edvardsson | Posted in And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead , Clipse , Jesus and Mary Chain , Nirvana , No Age , The Radio Dept. , The Raveonettes , Wavves | Posted on 1:02 PM
I like a lot of things about 22-year old noise punk, surfertrash, indiehypeband Wavves, lead by San Diegan Nathan Williams.
It's a great band name.
The album cover (see above) make me think of playing in the summer when I was a child.
He's packing more distortion in his songs that Clipse packed Cocaine before they started rapping.
On his myspace he explains his music as “slow death”.
His 'hit' song So Bored has that hard to define sound of sunshine, Jesus & Mary Chain, darkness and some of the upfront madness of Nirvana. And there are girls singing aahhhhaaa.
I do like that song.
But.
Most his stuff really hurts my ear.
So did last years South Cal noise hype No Age.
I'm not that punk I guess.
I need more melody.
Like early And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead.
More distortion?
Then I listen to The Raveonettes (klick here for kick ass video) or The Radio Dept.
There you go, you can now run away to listen.
I will blow my nose.
Again.
And again.
And again.
Raveonettes, yay! I can't listen to Attack of the Ghost Riders without feeling like I'm 17 and it's the middle of the night, which is what I was and it was when I first heard that song.
Blow your nose and get well before Friday! We need more quotes!! =)
Sasha: I have a great Raveonettes story from a festival, will write about that sometime soon!
Kath: I'm working on it, although I'm not feeling as good as I was hoping for today, damn cold!