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Single Review: Wavves – So Bored (Young Turks)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 16 February 2009
Wavves new song ‘So Bored’ doesn’t completely convince me. It sounds like a Big Muff fuzz-tone melodic counterpart to The Cure’s ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ and Beat Happening’s ‘Teenage Caveman’. These slightly surfish and noise-pop influences usually appeal to me, and the gaggle of youngsters arriving on these shores from America clutching Azzerad’s ‘Our Band Will Save Your Life’ and some SST records are refreshing. I should like it, and I don’t know why I’m not completely taken. Possibly because it’s just not as good as the latest offerings from similar bands like Times New Viking and The Vivian Girls. So I do kind of know. B-side ‘How Are You?’ is a stoned and depressed strum along of loss. However, it is about as sonically nourishing as gruel in comparison to its contemporaries, mentioned above, and its ancestry, which would be Pavement via The Beach Boys and 60s proto-punk lead guitar reverb shards. It’s okay, but a little too slow off the mark. PG
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