Wavves: King of the Beach | CD review

(Bella Union)The title track of the third Wavves album suggests Nathan Williams has had enough of being the lo-fi guy who's known for cracking up onstage. King of the Beach isn't the work of a seven-stone weakling getting sand kicked in his face; it's supple and muscular garage-pop, with bursts of power breaking across the central riff like, well, waves on the California coast. Throughout the album, Wavves sound cleaner and more certain than before – though as West Coast albums go, this is far...

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