WAVVES - Wavves
WAVVES
To be honest, I never heard of the genre called Lo-Fi. According to mighty Wikipedia this genre describes music recorded with worse and outdated equipment - or sounding like this. Lo-Fi looks like beeing a musical stream against todays music industry. As a prime time rebell I was excited about this and put the music immediatly into my player.
WAVVES tunes are totally strange. You'll hear musical experiments. It's good that I had in mind that this is Lo-Fi music and gave it the chance to develop. Otherwise I think I would have thrown this thing out of my window and would have played Slayer. After a while I could get into the music and suddenly the actual good quality of the release stunned me. When you listen with care, you'll hear much very cool harmonies (and disharmonies too :-)). Sometimes WAVVES reminds you on the totally stoned Beatles, sometimes it's going to remind you on the experiments Skinny Puppy did long time ago. If you would force me to put another label on it, I actually would say its experimental sixties music.
If you are one of those guys who needs perfect harmonies to sing along, you have the wrong album. On the whole record there are just 2 or 3 parts which are straight enough to name it "refrain" or simliar. SUMMER GOTH for example is one of the most rocking songs. KILLR PUNKX, SCARY DEMONS must be labeled ambient. It's simply industrial noises.
By all its experimental sounds, there are no modern synthesizers or anything else on it. If you are looking for todays soundstandard go ahead, buy new Mortiis. This one here is at a basic recording level, a medium composition level and at a very high experimental level. I enjoyed it and will do it again - but not very often. This is not an album for prime time listening.
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Wave Gotik Treffen 2009, Leipzig