Four childhood friends from El Paso who moved to Austin after a life-altering My Bloody Valentine show in 2008, Holy Wave have spent the years since becoming one of the most satisfying underground psych-rock bands America has produced.
There’s been six albums of sleepy shoegaze, reverb-soaked garage rock and psychedelia, touring with Hope Sandoval and Slowdive, and a devoted following built almost entirely on word of mouth and the live circuit. If you’ve been sleeping on them, now’s a good time to catch up.
Gloriously disorientating, new single ‘dewey’s dirge’ unfolds through shifting tempos, dissolving melodies and abrupt tonal turns.
“It’s as much a song about things changing as it is about wanting to change them. It’s about wishing you knew a world long gone, and at times, resenting those who were part of it”, says the band’s Ryan Fuson. “We wanted the different parts of the song to reflect the lyrical content of each section”.
The track captures that strange vertigo of watching a familiar world transform into something unrecognisable. New album ‘i'm DADA’ is out 10 Jul. And they play Brighton, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and London in September.
🎧 Watch the video for ‘dewey’s dirge’ below