‘Is the world ready for yet another post-rock band? The answer is yes! “Paper Canyon” overflows with gaping gorges of pretty passages prone to gathering momentum before enveloping unsuspecting ears whole… A debut record of real maturity!’ Best New Music – Rock Sound
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“The Wave Pictures may be on the cusp of a major breakthrough, and like all overnight sensations, it has taken them a long time to get there. This Loughborogh three-piece have gigged sporadically over the last decade, yet only now, on the eve of the release of debut album Instant Coffee Baby, are they attracting the kind of attention that means this last night of a four-week London residency is a torturously cramped affair.
Their appeal is not hard to understand. They play charming, witty pop songs shot through with Jonathan Richman’s gawky glee and Suede’s doomed provincial romanticism. If Jarvis Cocker were to sing with the Modern Lovers, he might produce a song like Leave The Scene Behind, a piquant account of being brusquely rejected by a beautiful social climber. They are a sharp imaginative band, but The Wave Pictures are all about guitarist and singer David Tattersall, a waspish naif who wears his heart on his ragged sleeve.
They owe a certain debt to the Smiths, and Tattersall has Morrissey’s knack of marrying the ridicukous and the sublime in an exquisite, tautly turned phrase: “I’ve seen you selling shoes, but you’ve never heard me sing,” he sighs on the bathetic but undeniably gorgeous Now You Are Pregnant. Similarly, We Dress Up Like Snowmen and I Love You Like A Madman are far more poignant than their throwaway titles would imply, and this packed indie sweatbox palpably throbs with entusiasm. The Wave Pictures will soon be playing far bigger venues than this – it was a privilege to see them here”
Ian Gittins, Guardian Gig Review.
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