Five Of Cups Holy Wave SKU: SSQ217LPC1 Barcode: 0803238021713 24.00 £24.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Suicide Squeeze Released Date: 4th August 2023 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Five of Cups opens with the title track, establishing the album’s auditory and thematic modus operandi from the get-go. Holy Wave’s lysergic textural palette is immediately apparent in the song’s woozy synth lead and anti-gravity guitar jangle, but the atypical chord progressions and vocal melody steers the music away from anodyne escapism into a pensive grappling between self-determination and defeatism. Holy Wave continue to ride the wistful and phantasmic train on “Bog Song,” where the members vacillate between swells of austere minor chords and layered electric orchestration. From there, the previously released digital single “Chaparral” plays with the band’s own sense of nostalgia, weaving references of their El Paso past into a tapestry of transcendental triumph. Like so much classic album-oriented rock music, the real magic begins to unfold in the latter half of Five of Cups. On “The Darkest Timeline,” Holy Wave recruits their friends Lorena Quintanilla and Alberto Gonzalez from the Baja California, Mexico psych duo Lorelle Meets the Obsolete to add additional ethereal layers to their intoxicating after-mid[1]night grooves. “Nothing in the Dark” functions on a similar principle, using a steady propulsive drum pattern as the bedrock to tape-warbled synths, arpeggiated guitar chords, jet streams of fuzz, and serene vocals. Five of Cups’ ruminations on combating defeat and disappointment are directly confronted on album closer “Happier.” Once again straddling the melodic line between melancholy and breezy sophistication, Holy Wave examines the synthetic construct of happiness in our modern age and how so often the attainment of comfort lacks any true sense of joy. Yet this isn’t some nihilistic dirge. Rather, it translates as a buoyant reminder that the bandwidth of human experience inherently requires peaks and valleys, and that euphoria is often found in the search outside of the familiar. Artist Holy Wave Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Suicide Squeeze Buying Options 180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 180g , 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Five of Cups Bog Song Chaparral Path Of Least Resistance Nothing is Real Hypervigilance The Darkest Timeline Nothing in the Dark Happier Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Senses Fail Follow Your Bliss Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Hassle Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 1st September 2023 £29.00 Select options Senses Fail Follow Your Bliss £29.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Hassle Records Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 1st September 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Folk Devils Beautiful Monsters (Singles And Demo Recordings 1984-1986) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Optic Nerve | 180g, 2LP Released 16th September 2016 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Folk Devils Beautiful Monsters (Singles And Demo Recordings 1984-1986) £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Optic Nerve SKU: OPT4022 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 16th September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jesus and his Judgemental Father It Might Get Better Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Specialist Subject | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 20th September 2017 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jesus and his Judgemental Father It Might Get Better £13.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Specialist Subject SKU: SPS060 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sonic Youth The Eternal Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Matador | 2LP Released 3rd May 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sonic Youth The Eternal £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Matador SKU: OLE8291 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 3rd May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Neck Deep Wishful Thinking Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Hopeless | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th January 2014 £11.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Neck Deep Wishful Thinking £11.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Hopeless SKU: HR7871 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th January 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ought Sun Coming Down Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Constellation | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 16th September 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ought Sun Coming Down £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Constellation SKU: CST115LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 16th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Goat Girl Goat Girl Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Rough Trade | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 6th April 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Goat Girl Goat Girl £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Rough Trade SKU: RTRADLP884 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 6th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View American Football American Football (LP3) (Indies Only) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Big Scary Monsters | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 21st March 2019 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders American Football American Football (LP3) (Indies Only) £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Big Scary Monsters SKU: BSM248V2 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 21st March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wimps Suitcase Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Kill Rock Stars | 1LP Released 13th November 2015 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wimps Suitcase £15.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Kill Rock Stars SKU: LPKRS603 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th November 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matt's picks View Product Quick View Mikey Erg Waxbuilt Castles Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Don Giovanni | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 26th July 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mikey Erg Waxbuilt Castles £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Don Giovanni SKU: LPDG185 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 26th July 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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