The Waves

This album is a fantastic addition to any shoegaze lover's collection. I ordered this because of my love for Tamaryn's newest album, Tender New Signs, and while this album has a somewhat different sound (mainly in the vocals), it is equally enjoyable. Listening to this album with headphones while the weather is dreary and dark is a sublime experience unlike any other.The song "Love Fade" is definitely a new favorite of mine and a standout track on this all-around great album.Fans of the shoegaze genre and fans of Tamaryn should not be dissappointed.

Can't stand the bad reviews it's gotten. Just because a band does not revolutionize their genre of music is no reason to give it a bad review.Tamaryn does what it does very well. I find myself constantly switching to them when I'm in the Shoegazing mood, and this is between a selection of Slowdive, Malory, Pasteboard, Lotus Plaza The Fauns, etc.On a side note, whenever "Love Fade" pops into my head my brain wants to mash it up with "A Fond Farewell" by Elliot Smith... this is epic.

Really, not a single review of this excellent album yet? I guess everyone is just too entranced by the music to take the time to write about it! Ah well, here goes...Tamaryn's full length debut The Waves is a beautiful, dark album that straddles the line between shoegaze and goth, but leans more heavily towards the former. The atmosphere of the album is dark but dreamy. If I had to throw out some names for comparison, I'd say Slowdive, Curve and My Bloody Valentine. During some tracks, the band sounds like The Jesus and Mary Chain fronted by a very heavily medicated Siouxsie Sioux, and during others like a heavier Beach House minus the organ. The layered guitars sometimes remind me of early Cocteau Twins (say, Garland era) but the vocalist's voice is very different from (and much lower than) Liz Fraser's. Anyway, these two lovely people have their own quite distinct style so it's a bit unfair of me to compare them to so many people.This is one of those albums you can have on in the background for the melancholy, dark atmosphere, but it's also very rewarding to listen to with full attention, preferably on a set of good headphones. I've been playing The Waves on a daily basis since it was released, and still enjoy it more every time I hear it. If you're into dark shoegaze music, you really owe it to yourself to give this album a try.

This cd is amazing and I would highly recommend listening to it!!!

Terrific!

Turn this one up... powerful!

Sounding out the dimensional reference points that both boundary and intersect the musical universe of a band whose recorded output appeals to me on a level that’s almost immediate and urgent in its nature has been my practice ever since I could find the right words to articulate it. I think that what any person who listens to a band recording and releasing material that is given its own novel twist many years after the group(s) acknowledged to be the pioneers in their genre and just kind of reflexively sneers at it as being “derivative” needs to understand is that like its creator, the universe is very old, and that nothing in it emerges from a complete vacuum. It’s with that kept in mind that I wanted to review Tamaryn’s debut “The Waves”, released in 2010. A number of people, including at least one of the customers below who left a review, have accused Tamaryn of biting My Bloody Valentine’s style. No one who listens seriously to shoegaze is going to argue against My Bloody Valentine’s designation as the most universally recognizable of the bands recording in that genre, with “Isn’t Anything”, released in November of 1988, serving a primer for the entire movement. And while it displayed a definite offbeat brilliance, I noticed that a few songs displayed similarities to the ground that the Jesus and Mary Chain, through “Psychocandy” had tread before them, even though I realized that I was also hearing music that extended and refined their sound. To snottily dismiss MBV as being derivative would’ve been a mistake, and would’ve deprived me of the real pleasure that listening to them over the past 3 decades has brought to me.Sure, Tamaryn’s going to bring to bear a good bit of the quiescent/aggressive dynamic that MBV and other first-generation shoegaze bands minded before them (most noticeably on “The Waves”, the leadoff track on this release). And yeah, Rex John Shelverton is going to lean heavily on his distortion, delay and reverb pedals to create both a massive overwash of cascading sound, or the impression that he’s channeling the sonic equivalent of levitating crystals that hang in suspension to resonate with tuneful frequencies within the confines of a measured centrifugal force, heard most especially on “Choirs of Winter”. Sometimes a heavy bottom end will provide an anchor for Shelverton’s maelstrom of melodic, highly tuneful, infinitely-chiming, echo-laden arpeggiation, brought to bear on “Sandstone”” “Cascades” and “”Mild Confusion” in particular augmented by an embedding field of sculpted, gently-channeled roar-of-the universe distortion. Tamaryn Brown’s vocals often emerge slightly above the level bubble of the mix with a husky sultriness, positively mesmerizing on the swirling, hypnotic “Coral Flower”, and occasionally soar above it, as on lead single “Love Fade”.So is any new ground broken on “The Waves”? Well, not really, as it’s a spiritual descendant of both “Isn’t Anything” and “Loveless”, though I’m definitely of the opinion that it extends and refines MBV’s blueprint without in any sort of way eclipsing it. It’s a highly tuneful and compelling first full-length release from this band, and one of the strongest debuts in the ‘nugaze movement in the past decade, and while owning it for the past 8 years, I’ve only just gotten around ‘til now to review it. I submit to you that while it apes its elders, it doesn’t mimic them with any sort of completeness, and that it’s a necessary release for any fan of shoegazing to own, and I can without a doubt positively recommend it.

If my old Tamaryn 'Tender New Signs' were a vinyl record, it would be worn out and scratched by now. Waves carries on this theme, nothing much new but if you like their sound this is a must-buy. Get yourself chilled and put this in your stereo.

Cd (in digipak) in ottimo stato e consegnato nei tempi previsti.

Le premier effort de Tamaryn est quelque peu bruitiste, sa voix est un peu noyée dans le mur de guitares (ça fait un peu partie des lois du genre noisy/dream pop), et ma préférence va à son dernier album en date, 'Crane Kiss', une vraie belle réussite. Il n'empêche, j'écoute 'The Waves' avec plaisir, et il était déjà très prometteur de beaux lendemains. Investissez sans hésiter !

godspeed you black emperor can go sleep for ever, this album are in the same perspective but 10 time better

I went to see this band live before I had heard anything thing by them, they blew me away! The summary of a 'shoegazing' style band hooked me. If you enjoy the sounds of 'Mazy Star' then this is for you.

Li conoscevo da tempo ma dopo averli visti live non ho avuto dubbi! Edizione limitata, spedizione in un giorno e via