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| Released | July 16, 2021 | |||
| Studio | Dave Sitek's home studio (Los Angeles) | |||
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| Length | 29:15 | |||
| Label | Fat Possum | |||
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Hideaway is an album by Wavves released on the record label Fat Possum Records on July 16, 2021. [1] This was the band's first album since You're Welcome was released four years earlier. The band worked with producer Dave Sitek, [2] and the album's themes were inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
In early 2019, Wavves began recording songs for what would become their seventh studio album. [4] This would become their first new music released since the 2018 standalone singles "All Star Goth" and "Emo Christmas". [3] After early studio sessions reportedly lacked surprises and "magic", according to frontman Nathan Williams, [4] the band began working with producer Dave Sitek. [2] According to Williams, melodies were initially built around short samples of songs from the 1950s and 1960s before removing those samples and creating the rest of the song's structure. [4] The album's lyrical themes were reportedly inspired by Williams living in a shed behind his parents' house during the album's recording, along with the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
On March 30, 2021, the album's first single "Sinking Feeling" was released. [5] On May 4, 2021, the band officially announced the album, simultaneously releasing the second single "Help Is on the Way". [6] The album was released by Fat Possum Records on July 16, 2021. On August 23, 2021, the band announced a live tour throughout the United States with 38 shows, starting in Las Vegas on October 1, 2021. [7] This was the first live performance by the band since December 31, 2019, [8] as plans to tour in support of the re-release of their third album King of the Beach had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 69/100 [9] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [10] |
| Beats Per Minute | 58% [11] |
| Classic Rock |   [12] |
| DIY | [13] |
| Exclaim! | 7/10 [14] |
| Kerrang! | 3/5 [15] |
| The Line of Best Fit | 58% [16] |
| NME | [17] |
| Pitchfork | 6.2/10 [2] |
| Uncut | 7/10 [18] |
The album was met with generally favorable reviews by critics, scoring 69 out of 100 on Metacritic. [9] NME called the album "Wavves' most original and varied work yet". [17] In a mixed review, Pitchfork called the album's hooks "straightforward to a fault, and short on those small, sometimes barely even perceptible deviations from expectation that distinguish a sublime hook from a routine one". [2] Classic Rock was more negative, calling it "an album full of lo-fi pop-tinged melodies sugarcoating a bitter centre". [12]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Thru Hell" | Nathan Williams | 2:46 |
| 2. | "Hideaway" |
| 3:58 |
| 3. | "Help Is on the Way" |
| 3:24 |
| 4. | "Sinking Feeling" | Alex Gates | 3:34 |
| 5. | "Honeycomb" | Stephen Pope | 4:12 |
| 6. | "The Blame" |
| 3:08 |
| 7. | "Marine Life" | Williams | 2:06 |
| 8. | "Planting a Garden" | Williams | 2:25 |
| 9. | "Caviar" | Williams | 3:48 |
| Total length: | 29:15 | ||
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