Wavelets are a band I'd never heard of (let alone heard) when I bought this record. The fact I own this album is a testament to quite how trigger happy I get when ordering records from the states and how easily swung I am by a good offer. On the other hand, it's a great record so I'm very pleased I own a copy.
I was ordering a bunch of records from the Tiny Engines website and I decided to pick up the Dikembe album since we'd seen them at Fest and I thought they were awesome. The site had an offer where you could order the Dikembe and Wavelets albums together for a small saving and I figured I didn't have much to lose - the postage was already high enough another record wouldn't cost too much and records from the US are so cheap anyway. Plus the description said that Dikembe and Wavelets shared a singer and a guitarist (hence the offer) so it really couldn't go too wrong.
Athaletics isn't a long album (it plays at 45rpm) but they squeeze in some excellent moments. The album is book-ended by my two favourite songs - Julio Won't Get Out of the Car and Cannonball - two songs made excellent by the group-vocals (something that also works pretty well on My Dad the Manatee). The end of Cannonball, with the chorus screamed by a whole bunch of voices, is the highlight of the record for me.
Controversially, I think I might actually prefer the Wavelets album to the Dikembe album; both are excellent, but Athaletics comes across a more fun record and I think it works.
Format: 12", a4 insert
Tracks: 9
Cost: £8.70 new
Bought: Tiny Engines website
When: 10/01/13
Colour: Transparent red (/150)
Etching: none
mp3s: Download code
