Staff Pick of the Week

Every week we here at Repo like to pick one record that we can all agree on as being the one thing we can't stop listening to. This week's pick is.....

Wavves - King of the Beach
(Fat Possum)

I think it's needless to say that Nathan Williams needed a win after the disasters (fist fights, lost band members and drugged out shows) that followed him after the release of his second album. Well... here's that win. "King of the Beach" feels like it was made by some bored, fresh out of high school pot head and so do all his other records, but that's part of why we like Wavves. It reminds you of all those sophomore-ish emotions that you love to recall, thinking about those days you had nothing better to do but get high and think about girls, all while rocking your head. That being said "King of the Beach" is not simply another installment of Wavves brand bored fuzz punk, it's a beast all it's own. Most notably the production is way, way better. It still sounds low-fi enough to make you feel the scuzz but the new layers of sound and use of an actual backing band makes you wanna listen to everything that's going on in each song. The lyrics are still straight out of someone's depressing dairy but even there you can hear the start of something different. If you listen to the title track's lyrics they seem fairly angry for Wavves but in a "I'll persevere over all you a**holes" sort of way. And you know what, he sorta did.

Also I feel it should be mentioned that the album cover is kinda great, a bling sport'n cat with a joint. Just wonderful.

Name Dropping: Thee Oh Sees, a punker Dum Dum Girls