Wow. Well this isn’t what I was expecting. Did I download a fake leak? Because I can hear actual guitar riffs and melodies in this music. Wait, it is Wavves? This sounds too creative. Slime ball main guy, Nathan Williams, must have laid off the drugs during the recording sessions. His mother must have told him off. Upon first listen, I was concerned about how familiar it seemed to Blink 182. It was hard to overcome this theory. It was hard to stop thinking about Blink 182, ...

It’s not the track that so far has gotten the most attention from Wavves’ new more pop-friendly third album King of the Beach, but I think maybe the one that says the most about where Nathan Williams is coming from these days comes six tracks in, with the bright and bouncy, self-deprecating but also re-energized “Take On the World”. He told John Norris in the Noisevox interview that it as written in the wake of Barcelona last year, and all of the surrounding backlash, and just as he...