Dead Waves is a truly unique NYC duo – two brothers, born and raised in Queens, who have been making music together for a decade. Their early music had a Nirvana/Pixies noise-rock vibe (and they recorded a 7" with Steve Albini) but on recent recordings they have dropped the volume and gone in a psych-folk direction – distant, dreamlike, haunting, fragmented songs, sometimes utilizing traditional Greek instruments in honor of their Greek heritage.
New EP Abandoned Children, the brothers' seventh release in all, was recorded by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans), with standout track "Innermost" produced by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey).
"It's about feeling empathy for all the abandoned children who feel hopeless in our present day reality," says Dead Waves' Teddy Panopoulos.
Stream the EP and buy it, here: https://deadwaves.com/album/abandoned-children
"Nick and Teddy Panopoulos find fragile intensity in haunting psych and folk arrangements, creating raw strange, and soulful meditations on the titular “abandoned children"... Perfectly balancing hypnotic fractured beauty and raw simmering menace.”
–Under the Radar
"Minimized percussion and bass, spectral guitar drones, and pained, muted vocals swirling around the album’s seven haunted tracks... Ranges in sound from the early bedroom slowcore recordings of The Antlers to doom-metal mainstays Thou’s unplugged 'Inconsolable' EP."
–Flood
“Every Dead Waves release has been compelling, but it feels like they have finally found their true sound. As quiet as this release is, it never comes across as passive or toothless. This music feels as important as it does ethereal. It sounds like ghosts at the edge of the firelight trying to tell us something. Are we listening?”
–Burning Ambulance
“A dream unto itself.”
–CVLT Nation
"A haunting, heartbreaking experience."
–Northern Transmissions
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