Um … what? Interesting noise is interesting noise, but this heavily hyped disc by experimental sound alchemist Nathan Williams rarely gels into anything more impressive or listenable than a few catchy fuzz-punk tracks. When it's not bouncing and grinding along in the vein of “Beach Demon” or “No Hope Kids,” Wavves seems insistent upon bogging itself down in a series of blown-out keyboard sounds designed to start arguments about what constitutes music, and what good genius might be when it produces something so, you know, fucking irritating. - Scott Harrell