A Baker's Dozen for 2010 #10 - King Of The Beach

Wavves second album is a celebration youthful folly, man, that straddles the line between serious commentary and pile of shit kind of like a long, rambling, run-on sentence that has it's moments of introspection but can't be taken seriously because the author is was so fucking high when they started down the rabbit hole that they don't know which way is up.

It's got noise, jingles, dopy titles, druggie paranoia and somehow at its core there's superb songwriting that brings out a sincerity not found in a lot of up and coming acts. Nathan Williams has some chops, and he's doing his best early Green Day impression all the way to the bank. Will he end up doing 40 nights of Broadway like Billie Joe in his 40s? Well, right now it'd be hard to bet he'll even make it alive to next year. For now, I'll enjoy the great surf punk on "King Of The Beach" and the exuberance on "Take On The World". This record may be the Jackass of 2010, but it sure is fun to watch it kick some of the overly serious records in the balls.