No Life For Me

 
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Wavves & Cloud Nothings
No Life For Me

[ Self-released / Inertia / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 14 August 2015

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This project had been previously rumoured to exist but an actual album was not in sight… until NOW. No Life For Me, a collaborative album by Nathan Williams of Wavves and Dylan Baldi of Cloud Nothings, it was recorded at Williams' home during two sessions between March 16th-March 26th 2015 and June 1st-June 10th 2014 with production from Sweet Valley.

"On the surface, the quasi-surprise teaming of Cloud Nothings and Wavves seems like the indie-punk version of the classic Loner Weirdo and Crowd-Pleasing Hitmaker archetype pair - a fixture of great pop partnership since at least Lennon and McCartney, right up to Kanye and Jigga. The distance between respective frontmen Dylan Baldi and Nathan Williams isn't really that sizable, though: The memory-attacker started his career with a couple LPs worth of sweetly sentimental lo-fi power-pop, while the King of the Beach has become neurotic enough to name his latest album (and its nervy title-track centerpiece) Afraid of Heights. On the sneak-released collaborative mini No Life for Me, the pair find easy common ground in chiming garage-punk psychoanalysis. (Or, as the immortal Mena Suvari once chose to inaccurately describe Everclear, "Self-loathing complaint rock that you can dance to.").

Though the project has been in the works since well over a year ago, the nine-track, 21-minute set has the charmingly tossed-off feel of a mixtape - hip-hop or C90. Songs start and end at their leisure, building and breaking unpredictably. "Nervous" leads on a repeated two-line chant, a synth twinkle, and an early Fugazi bass rumble; it gets through one verse and one chorus with a Mascisian guitar riff before running out of gas almost immediately after. "No Life For Me" crashes in with a distorted guitar intro (nearly) swiped from Rush's "Working Man," explodes into gorgeous pop-punk harmonizing, with a Sonic Youth guitar breakdown or two on the way to its cacophonous finish. It's tense throughout, but it's also endearingly frisky, and the poppiest moments have a tendency of landing at just the right time to stave off any potential noise-rock monotony." - Spin 7/10

Tracks:

1. Untitled 1
2. How It's Gonna Go
3. Come Down
4. Hard To Find
5. Untitled II
6. Nervous
7. No Life For Me
8. Such A Drag
9. Nothing Hurts

Listen to Come Down via Youtube