With King of the Beach‘s high position on our year end list, the Wavves hat we put out a couple months ago, and the just-dropped Black Bart Simpson X Wavves tee, it should come as no surprise that, yes, we at Мишка love Wavves. I am a huge fan of King of the Beach, but when it came out I will say that I definitely made curious note of how overwhelmingly fun and upbeat it is. That’s a good thing, and not necessarily a surprising one, but after Wavvves, I got the feeling that Nathan’s next project could go one of two ways.

He certainly has a considerable pop mastery, and an internal day-glo hook factory, both of which he put to great use on King. But no one would say it was impossible for him to instead turn down a slightly darker avenue. Well, apparently that bizarro-world album actually exists (at least in part). Nathan just released three as-yet unheard tracks from unused recording sessions he did last year with a different incarnation of Wavves, this one featuring experimental drummer Zach Hill (whose new project, Death Grips, I mentioned here). Pretty different, pretty heavy, pretty awesome.

Hula Hoop (feat. Zach Hill) by wavveswavves

Goldy Lox (feat. Zach Hill) by wavveswavves

Glued (feat. Zach Hill) by wavveswavves

Via The Fader

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