Wavers began in summer 2021 when Jake, Josh and Charlie wrote and demoed five songs and sent them to new friend Rosie, who wrote vox and lyrics within the week. Those tracks became the “Wavers” EP, released by Musical Fanzine in summer 2024. After three years of practicing and 30 gigs, they recorded “Look What I Found” in fall 2024 with Olympia legend Capt. Tripps Ballsington at High Command, whose credits include Broken Water, Milk Music, Gun Outfit, Physique, Pigeon Pit etc.
Wavers is a huge-hearted indie rock band influenced by diy punk, beloved friends, changing seasons, and our world in decline. Jake writes complex melodic lead bass guitar, Charlie adds skillful drumming and soaring harmonies, Josh’s guitar detonates controlled explosions all over the place, and Rosie’s vox and indie pop compositions provide the warm, humanist center. Lyrics explore beloved friends and lovers, environments built and natural, seasonality, listening to music in cars, jumping in always-changing rivers etc. Some folks say they sound like one-off self-released 7”s from 1995. This is raw indie rock for spiky kids with Discount, rather than Discharge, back patches.
1. Heartbeat
2. Pink
3. Landscapes
4. Liverwalk
5. Orange To Blue
6. Melodies
7. Bugs
8. Car Stereo
9. Parking Lot
10. "For Jake"
11. Sand
12. Already
13. Lake Michigan