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8.0
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musicOMH
The next obstacle for Wavves will be deciding whether to ditch the bedroom and work in an actual studio, but for now these lo-fi pop gems are more than enough to be getting on with
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8.0
5220
8.0 |
The Guardian
The incredibly lo-fi production is sweetened by Williams's knack for knocking out gloriously dumb 60s pop melodies.
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8.0
5228
8.0 |
Uncut
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8.0
15998
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
The move to a brighter pop sound will turn off some current fans and bring in plenty of new ones, but noisy or not, Williams is still making great music
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7.0
5223
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Does tend to tail off down repetition high street towards the end, but all in all, even where the experimental interlude segments of 'Goth Girls' and 'Killr Punx, Scary Demons' knit the record together like butterfly clips around a gaping wound, there's enough here to suggest Nathan Williams has the potential to become a very special talent indeed in the none too distant future.
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7.0
5224
7.0 |
NME
There are plenty of songs here you won’t want to listen to more than once, but plenty that’ll also lodge in your skull like fragments of glass from a smashed Coke bottle
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6.0
5225
6.0 |
The Quietus
The shock of the new may be absent from Wavvves, but by dousing brash melodies, girl-group harmonies and shoegaze interludes in his bong-water drenched aesthetic, Williams crafts a heavily distorted version of sunshine pop that deftly forgoes the 'surf's up' mentality and lunkheaded pop-punk commonly associated with his Southern Californian home
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6.0
5226
6.0 |
Mojo
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6.0
5221
6.0 |
The List
In all of its oddball glory, is definitely worth the effort
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2.0
5227
2.0 |
Q
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