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Relax

8.3M streams

8,344,007

Freaks of Nurture

5.1M streams

5,128,641

Interloper

2.3M streams

2,261,260

Five of Cups

1.7M streams

1,677,963

The Darkest Timeline

1.5M streams

1,467,333

Nothing in the Dark

1.4M streams

1,414,677

Bog Song

1.2M streams

1,234,081

Evil Hits

1.2M streams

1,154,357

Adult Fear

952.8K streams

952,833

The Evil Has Landed Pt. II

464.8K streams

464,815

Biography

Back at the beginning of their fifteen-year career, Holy Wave leaned into a tranquil realm of psychedelia, eschewing long-form jams and guitar heroics for a dreamy pop-oriented approach. As the band evolved, the early Sgt. Peppers-meets-the-Velvets sound yielded to more sophisticated melodies and tripped-out instrumentation, effectively steering their music away from sun-bleached nostalgia to a color-saturated dimension where sounds of the past, present, and future intermingled. The childhood friends of Ryan Fuson, Joey Cook, Kyle Hager, and Julian Ruiz grew up in El Paso, where they cut their teeth in the local DIY scene. Hungry for more music and broader perspectives, the members made frequent road trips across the Southwest to catch touring bands who opted to skip West Texas markets. That wanderlust eventually prompted their relocation to Austin, but it also permeated in their adventurous songwriting and love for touring. No small surprise then that these aural explorers felt that a whole way of life was taken from them with the onset of the pandemic. But on Five of Cups, it sounds as if the physical limitations of quarantine life prompted Holy Wave to wander even deeper into new sonic territories.