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‘AGE WAVES’ is the debut album of California artist and multi-instrumentalist SAM FLAX. Rarely however do debut albums come as confident and fully formed as this: expertly melding garage pop, new wave, 60’s psychedelia and 70’s FM rock into a kaleidoscopic and highly idiosyncratic vision of dub-infused pop.
Following on from previous single 'Fire Doesn't Burn Itself', Sam Flax now unveils the neon-lit, city prowling psych-infused disco of album highlight 'Child Of Glass', containing every fruitful element that the best 80's-inspired pop could boast: muted guitar lines, synthetic handclaps and a gigantic chorus.
Stream 'Child Of Glass' HERE:
Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, the ten songs that make up ‘AGE WAVES’ were composed, produced and recorded by FLAX over a period of several years, committing them directly to tape as part of his vintage aesthetic. Drawn by a fascination of pop culture coupled with the experimental and esoteric, the tracks explore outsider themes of the blurring line between high and low culture, pop and avant-garde, reclusiveness and exuberance, while never losing sight of the off-kilter hooks and instantly grabbing riffs that anchor them.
Released September 17th by purveyors of oddball pop The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing (Gross Magic, Unknown Mortal Orchestra) in the UK and garage-rock hotbed Burger Records in the US, the album manages to be uniformly inviting while loyal only to it’s own notion of zany aesthetic exploration. From the cool desert-road psychedelia of ‘Fire Doesn’t Burn Itself’ to the meditative atmospherics and abandoned reverb-scapes of ‘Homesick For Osaka’, ‘AGE WAVES’ is a celebration of pop eccentricity at it’s most exuberant, the work of a freshly arrived musical maverick charging straight out of the gate.
'AGE WAVES' Tracklisting:
Following on from previous single 'Fire Doesn't Burn Itself', Sam Flax now unveils the neon-lit, city prowling psych-infused disco of album highlight 'Child Of Glass', containing every fruitful element that the best 80's-inspired pop could boast: muted guitar lines, synthetic handclaps and a gigantic chorus.
Stream 'Child Of Glass' HERE:
Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, the ten songs that make up ‘AGE WAVES’ were composed, produced and recorded by FLAX over a period of several years, committing them directly to tape as part of his vintage aesthetic. Drawn by a fascination of pop culture coupled with the experimental and esoteric, the tracks explore outsider themes of the blurring line between high and low culture, pop and avant-garde, reclusiveness and exuberance, while never losing sight of the off-kilter hooks and instantly grabbing riffs that anchor them.
Released September 17th by purveyors of oddball pop The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing (Gross Magic, Unknown Mortal Orchestra) in the UK and garage-rock hotbed Burger Records in the US, the album manages to be uniformly inviting while loyal only to it’s own notion of zany aesthetic exploration. From the cool desert-road psychedelia of ‘Fire Doesn’t Burn Itself’ to the meditative atmospherics and abandoned reverb-scapes of ‘Homesick For Osaka’, ‘AGE WAVES’ is a celebration of pop eccentricity at it’s most exuberant, the work of a freshly arrived musical maverick charging straight out of the gate.
'AGE WAVES' Tracklisting:
- Fire Doesn’t Burn Itself
- Child Of Glass
- Everybody Wants
- Almost Young
- Dark Water
- Crystal Death
- Another Day
- Further West
- Backwards Fire
- Homesick For Osaka
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