Young local rock trio The Wave celebrates the release of their new album, High Road Hard Road; it’s been a full three years since their greenhorn debut Dreamers, and that’s an eternity in teenage years. Guitarist and primary songwriter Willie Denton-Edmundson says this time around he tried to channel Tom Petty in the compositions — before ripping nasty solos all over the place, at least. “My lyrics were a little bit stronger on the new one,” he says. There’s a bit of old-soul aesthetic at work, too; the solos are bluesier this time, and they also tried to stay away from newfangled studio cheats like punch-ins and overdubs which have become par for the course with so many other musicians. “I wanted to make it old fashioned and do it all the way through, because it just seemed more natural to us,” he adds.

The Wave - My Robot
The Wave - Sometimes
The Wave - Little People

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