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Swinging Jaw: WAVVES

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Full transcript of an interview with WAVVES‘ Nathan Williams conducted for the next issue of Plan B Magazine.



MP3: WAVVES - So Bored

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Back On The Regs

Ducktails’ Matthew Mondanile seems like he’s got friends alive in every state in America. This blogged press from the LA Weekly places him in Massachusetts, while some of the most recent photographs from his Flickr account find him horsing around beneath Californian palms. When he sent his latest email across to me he’d just got back to New York from Philadelphia. The tracks posted at his MySpace page (location: Ridgewood, New Jersey) pan out in a way that makes it hard not to conceive of Mondanile as a surf dude on the drift, gently overwhelming with squinting, red-eyed guitar like slithers of emergent sun; sand shaken from beach bass bins by bluntsucking, bottle-draining tumbles of keys and noise. More specifically: rad, rad times that fall between ears hearing The Durutti Column and earlier Ecstatic Sunshine. We’ve a couple of downloads for you – ‘Point Pleasant Beach’ and ‘Pizza Time’ fall hazily into each other just like they did on the A-side of a 7” put out by Breaking World Records (buy) and another, longer jam called ‘Surf’s Up’ which you should watch with the video lurking after the jump.



MP3: Ducktails - ‘Point Pleasant Beach’/'Pizza Time’



MP3: Ducktails - ‘Surf’s Up’

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Crook Grind Kicks

An idle Californian slacker spewing out riotous lo-fi anthems, Nathan Williams’ haggard larynx hollers his chore-dodging routine on ‘So Bored’ as if penned and produced high on glue from under a duvet clothed in nothing more than some soiled kegs. Releasing his debut Wavves LP, Wavvves, through De Stijl at the turn of ‘09 after racking up a number of 7″s on Release The Bats and Fuck It Tapes, his solo ensemble is like the melding of Wipers’ putrid jams, Pixies’ sunken grunge harmonies and anything Calvin Johnson ever croaked his way through.

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