But yeah, "why?", I hear you ask, am I only til now becoming interested in the group? Well like most of the 15-25 console owning male population of the world, I have been playing Grand Theft Auto 5 and as always, the stellar radio soundtracks of previous games have been recaptured.
Not only do Wavves contribute a song to the game, but members Nathan Williams and Stephen Pope actually acted as radio DJs to one of the game's many stations, Vinewood Boulevard Radio. I fine job they did to, between the station's alt rock choons the duo proved to be a comical duo offering a perfectly stereotypical slacker view on proceedings.
Anyway, the song itself is Nine Is God taken from the group's most recent album; Afraid Of Heights. I'm yet to listen to the album as before now my only prolonged experience with the band was catching the closing moments of their set at Reading Fesitval this year. Ironically I meant to listen to them more after that but GTA kindly acted as a reminder for my forgetful ways.
I'm including the studio version and a rather nifty live version performed on US talk show Conan. Enjoy folks! I'll try and do something with this blog soon.
