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I’ve been listening to both Wavves and Say Anything for years. I love both bands so much, but would never have put them into the same orbit until now. I feel like this new song is the collaboration that nobody asked for, but everyone needed. This collaboration isn’t just a song, it’s a full LP but “Deathx1k” is the lead single of said LP so let’s focus on that today.

If the music doesn’t hook you here, the claymatian music video absolutely will. Just kidding, the music will definitely hook you here. It’s catchy and has the infectious energy of Say Anything with the gritty power of Wavves, all combined into one beautifully catchy little bop. Although I latched onto the catchiness here, there is no denying the depth of this song. You get Max Bemis’ (Say Anything) hopeless romantic kind of vocal style mixed with Wavves’ more surf rock kind of grit, which creates waves of sounds that you want to surf on. Really, I should have so much more to say about this song but I think I’m just so delighted about this unexpected partnership of these two iconic bands. Apparently, I’m the only one who found this pairing to be a bit surprising.

Speaking on the origins of his partnership with Max Bemis, Nathan Williams (Wavves) recalls that “He was Wavves adjacent. He’d been on tour with our drummer (Ross Traver) and our friend Justice Tripp (Angel Du$t). I’m a very curious person creatively, and somehow, Max told me he was a fan. After really digging into his catalog, I was kind of in shock. His records are really interesting. I wanted to see what an early 2000s Wavves emo record would sound like. That was the idea. To make a mall emo record.”

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