Once upon a time, skinny scenesters with Eastern-bloc haircuts started a post-punk revival from their Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn haunts. Longwave had a residency in a bar called Luna Lounge and melted faces with their wall of melodic, overdriven noise. Soon, they were palling around with Strokes and Vines. Now, three years have passed since their last album, anyone miss em? The first few songs on their fourth might fool you into thinking they have a future: crying, bending guitars, explosions-in-the-sky drumming, soaring organs and Mack-truck-thick bass form the heaviest and fuzziest bottom since the naked-wrestling scene in Borat. Leaving no sonic void unfilled, they reverse the time-space continuum to 1991, when My Bloody Valentine released Loveless. But it¹s downhill after the highpoint: "Sirens in the Deep Sea", where Longwave make an epic tension build and erupt in a wordless falsetto chorus. Sadly, it¹s the first track.

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