The Waeve

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Here Comes the Waeve" - Single by the Waeve". Apple Music. 20 April 2022 . Retrieved 5 February 2023.

Mason, Julia (21 April 2022). "The Great Escape (11 – 12 May) unveils full festival and conference schedule". God Is in the TV . Retrieved 30 March 2023. Taylor, Sarah (2 February 2023). "Album Review: The Waeve - The Waeve". Gigwise . Retrieved 3 February 2023.

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a b Trendell, Andrew (6 September 2022). "Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall on their debut album as The WAEVE: "We asked: 'How could we forge forward through life?'"". NME . Retrieved 5 February 2023. The duo and album were first announced 20 April 2022 along with a standalone single called "Here Comes the Waeve". [4] [5] They also announced a second standalone single, "Something Pretty", on that day; the single was released on 5 May. [4] [6] Four more singles were released prior to the album: "Can I Call You" on 6 September, [7] "Drowning" on 24 October, [8] "Kill Me Again" on 29 November, [9] and "Over and Over" on 19 January 2023. [10] Music videos were released for "Can I Call You" and "Kill Me Again", both directed by David J. East. [9] [11] On 6 September 2022, The Waeve shared details of their upcoming self-titled debut album while also releasing the first single from it, "Can I Call You". [2] The second single "Drowning" followed on 24 October, along with an announcement of a U.K. tour scheduled for March 2023. [6] The Waeve then released third single "Kill Me Again" on 24 November 2022, [7] and on 19 January 2023 they put out "Over and Over Again", the fourth and final single leading up to the release of the album. [1] a b c d e f Seaman, Duncan (23 February 2023). "The Waeve: 'Some of the songs went on forever and are still probably going somewhere' ". The Yorkshire Post . Retrieved 30 March 2023. Similar tensions dominate The Waeve, shared values blurring what might otherwise be familiar, jarring styles. Indeed, given how Dougall specialises in ornate but soberly sophisticated pop and Coxon in, well, whatever takes his fancy, tension is its lifeblood. Trade-offs are rarely sanctioned, with this instead again about testing boundaries. So,

Redfern, Mark (3 February 2023). "The Waeve — Stream the Debut Album From Rose Elinor Dougall and Graham Coxon's New Band". Under the Radar . Retrieved 30 March 2023.Jones, Damian (24 October 2022). "Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall's the Waeve announce 2023 UK tour and share new single". NME . Retrieved 30 March 2023. A deluxe version of the album was released on 27 March which includes four new songs. [12] Live [ edit ] Trendell, Andrew (20 April 2022). "Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall team up to form The WAEVE". NME . Retrieved 5 February 2023. The Waeve have cited Sandy Denny, John and Beverley Martyn, Kevin Ayers and Van der Graaf Generator as reference points for their debut album. [1] Band members [ edit ] The WAEVE - composed of Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall – release their eponymous debut album, out 3rd February 2023 on Transgressive Records.

On 20 April 2022, the duo announced their first show as the Waeve at the Lexington in Islington, London on 4 May. [13] They later added a second show at the Lexington on 6 May. [14] On 21 April, The Great Escape Festival announced their lineup which included the Waeve playing on 12 May along with fellow Transgressive Records acts including Mykki Blanco and Let's Eat Grandma. [15] The duo were joined by the Electric Soft Parade drummer Thomas White, bassist Joe Chilton, and multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Glasson who played violin, keyboard, and a saxophone duet with Coxon during the song "Big Idea". [16] [17] Their set was the best-attended of the night and was reviewed positively by The Arts Desk 's Thomas H. Green. [16] On 24 October, the band announced their first tour of the UK for March 2023, including shows at Manchester's Band on the Wall and Leeds' Brudenell Social Club. [18] The band also played Primavera Sound in May and June and Vieilles Charrues Festival in July. [19] [20] Style [ edit ] a b c d Campbell, Lee (25 January 2023). "The Waeve are drawing out the blood and guts of their influences". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 5 February 2023. Then, one day in very early January we found ourselves slipping and sliding around Hampstead Heath in the mud, with the low-lying sun blinding us as we talked about ourselves and our lives. Something about Rose’s good humour and bright mischief made me feel a certain kinship toward her. Broadcast purists might be annoyed by how much the WAEVE borrow from the much-lamented Birmingham experimentalists, down to Dougall’s delivery of the word “surrender” on “Undine,” which comes straight from the Trish Keenan school of detached seduction. But Dougall has the songwriting talent to pull it off: Her 2017 solo album Stellular joined lovelorn synth-pop with Broadcast-esque dreaminess to enchanting effect. Add the saxophone and Coxon’s naively charming vocals, which share the limelight with Dougall’s Keenan-ian tone, and the WAEVE become a far more intriguing beast: a band with its own distinct musical palette. Within a week we were recording. Our work was exploratory. Two people asked questions of each other, and as a consequence the void became less yawning. Music was created, and these two voices in the songs became two people: Rose and I.”I’m not interested in the twee side of folk,” Dougall told NME. “We’re dealing with life and death and all that kind of thing. There’s a brutality to nature. It’s not all pastoral. Those are the visual things I feel that our music summons up.” if the mood’s often ‘tasteful’ – a pejorative word previously used flippantly by Coxon to describe Dougall’s tastes – that’s never such that refined classiness can’t accommodate more mischievous tendencies. As both Dougall and Coxon are Pisceans and their complicated feelings towards Britain inspired their music with numerous references in the lyrics to water and sea, they decided to call themselves The Waeve using the old English spelling. [4] Going public and releasing The Waeve (2022–present) [ edit ] On 20 April 2022, The Waeve officially went public by announcing that they would be playing their first live show and releasing their debut single, "Something Pretty", the following month. [5] Redfern, Mark (6 September 2022). "The Waeve (Rose Elinor Dougall + Graham Coxon) Announce Album, Share New Song "Can I Call You" ". Under the Radar . Retrieved 5 February 2023.

Their first explorations opened up a sonic universe neither had expected to find. Initially drawing on a shared love of English folk music, storytelling and the associated landscapes of their beleaguered island, they discovered a shared need to shed themselves of poisons, heartbreaks and defeats through music.Kelly, Tyler Damara (27 March 2023). "The Waeve release deluxe version of self-titled debut album". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 30 March 2023. Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall first met in 2004 during a gig at Islington's the Buffalo Bar, in which Coxon was an attendee and Dougall was performing with the Pipettes. However, a brief chat and Dougall convincing Coxon to buy her a quadruple brandy and coke was the extent of that encounter. [2] Writing sessions involved the two playing whatever instruments they had around, focusing on physical instruments to avoid getting lost in the possibilities of their digital audio workstation's "vast library of synths". [3] While Dougall said "it just wouldn't be right" if the album didn't contain Coxon's guitar playing, it was his work on the saxophone, an instrument he is classically trained in, which "really helped to shape the multi-angled outline" of the album. Coxon engineered most of the album before the duo brought on James Ford to finish the record. Ford made significant changes such as replacing the duo's synthesiser recordings with real string instruments and adding other sounds including a flute. Other instruments on the record include a cittern and a six string bass once owned by Sly and the Family Stone's Larry Graham. Dougall took vocal inspiration from singers such as Anne Briggs, Sandy Denny and Karen Dalton. [2] Release [ edit ] Rettig, James (6 September 2022). "The Waeve – "Can I Call You" ". Stereogum . Retrieved 5 February 2023.