It is coming to the end of the year which means a flurry of year end music from various sources. For me this is like Christmas, I lovvvvvvvvvvve the year end end lists, they are always a chance to go back and reconnect with the music that really moved you throughout the year with more of an overview of the whole scene for the year. Added to which there always seem to be amazing albums which somehow pop up out of the woodwork, leaving you mystified as to where the hell they had been hiding all year long!
This next song is from an album like that. The song is ‘So Bored’ from the artist Wavves, from his S/T disc. This past week it seems that Wavves has been catapulted into the lime light, as everyone is loving him. The album is blissed out noise pop, everything so distorted, with underlying Beachboys-esque ‘surf’style’ rock feel at the base of it all. Catch the Wavves if you are up for it, I will tell you I would’ve loved to have had this album in the summer.
This is a very fitting raw, live concert (nice venue, looks like he’s playing in a pawn shop 
) version of Wavves performing ‘So Bored’ I believe at a show in SD, Cali, where he is from. If it sounds to you that the quality of the ‘sound’ is really bad, trust me the actual recording of the song is pretty much the same. So bad, it’s so good.
Now for Sten. Another year end surprise for me, as I had never heard of Sten, AKA Lawrence, until yesterday. By some of my reliable sources, his latest album, The Essence, is touted as ‘easily’ being the techno album of the year. I’ve listened to roughly five of his tracks, and they are sounding really good so far. For the genre, the music is very melodic, much of the time having a minimal deep house feel.
This one is from The Essence, and is called ‘Way To The Stars’, enjoy….
if you like this Sten, go check out other Sten over at his Myspace. Check ‘Sten More Stash’ and ‘Lawrence For DNTEL Dreams’ and go from there.
Peace
