Dark Waves | |
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Origin | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Genres | Indie pop |
Years active | 2014–present |
Labels | Five Seven Music |
Members | Nick Long |
Website | darkwavesmusic.com |
Dark Waves is an American indie pop band from Los Angeles, California, United States, formed by frontman Nick Long in 2014. [1]
The group has released one self-titled EP Dark Waves (2014) and plans to release a full album in summer of 2015. [2] [3]
Drawing notable comparisons to bands such as The Neighbourhood and Bad Suns, [4] the sound of Dark Waves has been described by Buzzbands L.A. as "electro-romantic", "afloat in the unsettling, gloomy currents of love and longing". [5]
Nick Long was raised in Santa Barbara, California. [6] His parents encouraged an interest in music from a young age: they bought him his first drum kit at age 5, piano lessons at age 6, and for his 8th birthday, his dad gave him a guitar. [7]
Long belonged to punk bands Staring Back and Dead Country before forming Dark Waves. “I would write these songs and they would be kind of mello, synthy songs [with] acoustic guitars, and then I would take it to my band and we would turn it into a big rock song. “As much I love punk and rock and stuff like that, I just didn’t really want to be taken to that place anymore. The songs just felt better and more natural in the first form that they came in.” [8]
Dark Waves released their self-titled EP in September 2014. The debut single off the EP, "The Heartbeat The Soul", has been streamed over two million times on Spotify. [9]
The newly released "I Don’t Wanna Be In Love", featured in an episode of Vampire Diaries, hit #2 on the Hype Machine’s most popular chart. [10] [11] "I wrote this song toward the end of a relationship," says Long. "I didn't realize how weighed down I felt until after it ended, but I knew something wasn't right. It made me sad to feel disconnected from someone that I once felt so close to. The song is basically me taking a look at my situation and being honest with myself about how I felt." [12]
Dark Waves supported New Zealand's alt-pop songstress Brooke Fraser on her Brutal Romantic tour in January and February 2015 and will play the South By Southwest Music Festival in March 2015. [13]
Title | Year | Director(s) | Album |
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"The Heartbeat the Soul" | 2015 | DJay Brawner | Dark Waves EP |
"I Don't Wanna Be In Love" | 2014 | Alexandre Themistocleous |
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