Waveless (Minneapolis, MN)

I don't know what most people do. I don't imagine they just pick up a guitar and are suddenly able to make amazing noise, right off the bat. Of course, it helps if you've got a sinister vision behind it all, in which case it's Waveless, the architects of that vision who could do it.

For an EP, this thing takes me for quite a ride. Just from the first track, the hollow guitar blows the curtains off, opening up this vast landscape before me and right before Hannah Kathleen's resin-like vocals fall in and get me amp'd up for the howling chorus, taking me to a primal place I long ago sealed off and neglected.

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I put that first track on repeat and it gets me worked up each and every time I hear it. After doing that for a bit and moved to the second track, I was caught off guard by the drastically different approach in Lucid Nightmare, which convinced me that there is a more mature approach to their craft and I'm only almost halfway through it.

Even with just those 4-tracks, by the end of it I feel like I've passed through generations of myths and echos. Even Broken Arrow and Upclose/Unclear are powerful pieces of aural art that concede to the fact that this is some of the best gaze since Slowdive and best dark art since... since... Joy Division!

There, I said it!

If Waveless never puts anything else out (which is doubtful) this, so far, is one of the most listened to digital releases I'm so fortunate to have heard all month and I sure as shit, can't wait to hear more!

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