CD: 68179-2
RELEASED: 2003
LABEL: RCA

01. Wake Me When It's Over
02. Everywhere You Turn
03. Pool Song
04. I Know It's Coming Someday
05. Meet Me At The Bottom
06. Can't Feel A Thing
07. Tidal Wave
08. The Ghosts Around You
09. All Sewn Up
10. Exit
11. Strangest Things
12. Day Sleeper

'The Strangest Things' is the second album, and first for a major label, for Longwave. Initially, it appears that every element of every single great windswept, towering guitar band of the eighties has been masterfully condensed into an hour of New York-made musical cool (just like Interpol). Single "Everywhere You Turn" is counterfeit U2, "I know It's Coming Someday" is primetime Ian McCulloch, and the big-coated images of Joy Division and The Cocteau Twins et all loom large elsewhere. "Wake Me When Its Over" and the aforementioned "I Know It's Coming Someday" are graceful, large-looming efforts, and "Can't Feel A Thing" is a pleasant lamentive strum. Putting this record on is like stepping into a dream world. Longwave's music hauntingly transcends you into a serene pasture full of soft and tranquil melodies. The band weaves airy guitar textures together with melodic consonance and emotionally sweet vocals. The melodic, emotionally forthright 'Tidal Wave' with its fragile vocals and crashing guitars, is the band's quintessential moment; if this record's got a hit single, this is it. It's always good to hear an artist that gives equal time to sound and substance, and with 'The Strangest Things' Longwave could find itself on the receiving end of deserved critical and popular acclaim.

Influences / Similar Artists:
Joy Division, Into Paradise, Interpol, The Chameleons, Power Of Dreams