Wavves and Cloud Nothings are two pretty uneven bands. Wavves is prone to go-nowhere jams, but can bang out a sunburned punk rumble with the best of them. Cloud Nothings can run slow and boring, but their fast songs sear with propulsive, searching desperation.
What you've got on No Life for Me is a strange middle ground - a collaboration that dodges both bands weaknesses but loses their best qualities along the way. It rocks front to back, chugging and churning and clicking on and on. But you've got a mismatch in tone: Wavves is stoner rock about not giving a shit, Cloud Nothings is desperate post-emo, burning with introspective fuel. Wavves puts skateboarders on the covers of their albums, Cloud Nothings puts lonely black and white skylines.
Not really fun, not really wracked with feeling, it's a peanut butter and chocolate shell with no filling. It'll tap your toe for 20 minutes, but it's not going to move you to get high or low tonight 3/5
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