Brooklyn, NY's Dead Waves release
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"...sounds as though it has more in common with 80′s rock juggernauts The Pixies and grunge icons Nirvana than it does with any clear-cut modern indie rock group. Everything is shaded slightly dark here, with a wealth of fuzz added to the guitars and reverb dripping from the lyrics. But even with the song sounding as though it was recorded at the bottom of a well — at the bottom of the sea – it still has enough sting that you’ll not likely forget its resounding melodies and cacophonous wash of sound any time soon."
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Love. Optimism. Togetherness. Words like this make most of us want to smile, sigh, perhaps lay our head on someone’s shoulder. They make Teddy Panopoulos want to scream.
Or, rather, the lack of them do. “We want everything and everyone to come together and settle their differences,” says Teddy, the lead singer of New York three-piece Dead Waves. Along with brother Nick on guitar and vocals and drummer Fabien Streit, Panopoulos uses Dead Waves as a platform to express not only this brotherly love, but also the band’s disillusionment with the current state of things. Hence the title of their new EP, Take Me Away. As Teddy points out, “There is that bittersweet beauty and self-enlightenment of love that arrives by breaking away and freeing your mind from most man-made nonsense.”
It can be tough to tell, through the feedback and the wailing on “Planet of Tribes,” the lead song from Take Me Away, that Teddy is calling on listeners to cast aside their differences and come together. But the message gets a little clearer as the album progresses into a more approachable punk/alternative sound, one that often calls to mind The Pixies and Nirvana.
The Panopoulos brothers are self-taught musicians from Queens. After a little over half a decade of noodling around with an underground punk band and dabbling in digital, they linked up with Streit last year to form Dead Waves. Since, the rate of their output has been as aggressive as their playing, with Take Me Away following close on the heels of June’s Kill the Youth EP and another collection of songs — slated for release either as a third EP or as part of what would be their first LP — already in the works.
“We just want to tackle everything about our expression and what we’re trying to get out,” Panopoulos says.
It’s an urgent message — to abandon life as TV zombies and become a greater part of the universal consciousness — and Dead Waves are in a frenzy to get it out. A little screaming is warranted.
"...Dead Waves are a Brooklyn, NY-based punk (bordering on metal) band consisting of brothers Ted and Nick Panopoulos, who play bass and guitar and share vocals, and drummer Franz Streit. ...sounds great loud - it's aggressive yet melodic and in places, it reminds me fondly of the bombastic early stuff from Pixies..or perhaps GbV, circa Propeller, except maybe Pollard is sharing vocals with Lemmy... Oh, did that get your attention? It should - this thing's terrific” –When You Motor Away
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