So I’m yet to hear a lot from the album, since I’ve been plagued with work and many other commitments (hence the period of nothingness for two weeks), but from what I have listened to, it is brilliant. There are so many potential singles to be released and chart highly here in Australia and even perhaps overseas.

It pretty much just continues from their previous album, with brilliant, first-class, Aussie rock.

It seems like this has been coming a long time now. For a while now we’ve heard teasers here and there from Washington, whether it be tracks from the EP, or live recordings.

Expectations have been far exceeded. The album’s sound is clever, inventive and oh so enjoyable. Her voice just makes the whole thing come together.

A really fun album to listen to!

I’ve recently made a post about it here.

Thanks!

Wow, okay. So many influences that I can hear in this band. Normally, I find ‘influences’ or ‘sounds like’ categorisation to be an admission of a lack of originality. However, the combination of classic and new sounds Wavves presents is something quite different.

I think it’s a sound which will appeal to a wide range of audiences, and I hope to hear more from this lot.

This has to be one of the most enjoyable albums I’ve had the liberty to listen to which has been listed on the Pitchfork website. I’m not sure what it is, but I find it just so enjoyable.

It’s tracks like ‘Come With Me’ that I wish were played more often in clubs. Perhaps not all night long, but something different from the usual uhn tiss uhn tiss that’s blasting from the PA would be nice every now and then.

Check it out, it’s good fun!

As far as contemporary Hip Hop goes, this is pretty reasonable. Interesting beats and unusual syncopation lend themselves to an above average release from Outkast’s Big Boi.

It is testament to how different Outkast have been from the rest of the field. ‘Shutterbug’ is my introduction to the album, and I have to say, it’s a great blend of contemporary and old school Hip Hop.

Maybe your other Hip Hop artists could learn a thing or two from Big Boi, I’m just saying.

The record’s an interesting listen, the vast instrumentation really adds to the sound. However, what is that sound exactly? I’m not sure what the random addition of rather pointless sounds is meant to represent or achieve, though maybe I am missing some deeper meaning. Overall I find it a better than average album, with the obligatory and poor attempt at transcending some worldly boundaries enforced on music in the current era. Musicians should get over themselves and just make good music.

Looks like Pitchfork beat them to it. Here’s my post from a little while ago.

Ariel Pink has a really interesting hybrid of sounds. The obvious revival of funk rhythms and heavy bass lines intertwined with a more modern take on electronica really does make for exciting listening. For me personally, it really brings back memories of when I first discovered 80s bands such as The Fixx and Wang Chung, corny listening I know.

‘Fright Night (Nevermore)’ really echoes the 80s sound, and it leaves me wondering, is this where music is heading? It’s been coming for a while now, fashion, among other things, have been heading that way. But is this necessary a good thing? We all know that a lot of the music from that era lacked some originality, and a lot of it was unfortunately created disregarding what level of talent the individual may have had.

However, I believe that Ariel Pink has really shown how this style of musical revival can contain some integrity. Tracks like ‘Beverly Kills’ are not pieced together with such simplicity as they were often 20 or 30 years ago, and synthesizers are not used so carelessly anymore.

Before Today is a really interesting listen. It’s amazing how it can take you back to what seems like another world almost three decades ago, yet still add to that great sound so many of us still love.

Honestly this is just an awesome, chilled record for a winter’s night in. The catchy and upbeat guitar, fast paced rhythm, and falsetto hooks in Summer Holiday really get you warm moving. That’s opposed to the more relaxed, electronic feel of the cleverly titled Bored Games. A spacey feel which is gained by high amounts of reverb really helps to lose the rigidity which a lot of indie acts tend to have, whether it be sharp guitar rhythms or harsh phrasing of vocal lines. Wild Nothing have escaped this by incorporating the 80s style of bands such as New Order and this is especially noticeable in Bored Games.

Quite simply, it’s good indie-pop, in line with the current musical trends; nothing hugely creative or original, but what they do, they do it very well.