Wavves and Say Something are merging their respective takes on coastal pop-punk for a brand new collaborative album known as Cherry Soda. It’s out September 18 through I Give up. The lead single, “Deathx1k,” will get a cheeky stop-motion video directed by Jelly Eyes, that includes claymation variations of Nathan Williams, Max Bemis, and a handful of different critters who rise up to no good. Test it out beneath.
Produced by Aaron Rubin, Cherry Soda is 10 songs lengthy and co-written solely by Williams and Bemis. In a press launch, Williams revealed that he was impressed to collaborate with the Say Something frontman after digging by Bemis’ catalogue and being shocked on the vary of his sound. “I wished to see what an early 2000s Wavves emo report would sound like,” stated Williams. “That was the concept: to make a mall emo report.”
Bemis provides: “We type of wrote to one another’s conditions. We’re each very totally different individuals, however we get alongside rather well. As writers, we pushed ourselves. He turned extra emo and I turned extra Wavves-y. I feel we introduced out a few of the stuff that isn’t most blatant in one another. I could also be singing stuff that sounds type of bleak, however that’s type of like Nate’s entire shtick, though he’s really a really candy, delicate man.”
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Cherry Soda:
01 Preserve What Hurts
02 Deathx1k
03 Gone Away
04 So Low
05 Nonetheless Alive
06 Cherry Soda
07 Promote You Hope
08 Litterbug
09 Faux Once more
10 Pinesol



