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8 / 10 Lyrically, The Wave Pictures turn on a dime. They can zip from richly observed into amusingly confessional into a Lewis Carroll flight of fancy, as on ‘Strange Fruit For David’, which has a Morrissey-like knack for landmining the sublime: “A statue is a statue, and marmalade is marmalade/But a statue of marmalade is still a statue”. Musically, they could probably turn on a dime too (in the other sense of the word…) such is their woozy, small-town romanticism. With a recklessness that makes Let’s Wrestle seem like Radiohead, they bash from The Crickets (‘We Come Alive’) to the Smokey Robinson treacle soul of ‘Avocado Baby’. Having made this dishevelled bed they invite David Tattersall’s voice to lie down on it, but to no avail. Buttered with reverb to the point of distortion, his nasal Brett Anderson rasp leaps up and bites you in the pants region. Excitingly.

Gavin Haynes

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Date/Time	Venue	Town/City	Seetickets	Viagogo
Mar 21, 2012 19:30	Brudenell Social Club	Leeds	Buy The Wave Pictures Tickets
Mar 24, 2012 19:30	Kings Arms	Manchester	Buy The Wave Pictures Tickets
Mar 25, 2012 19:00	The Victoria Inn	Derby	Buy The Wave Pictures Tickets
Mar 27, 2012 20:30	Sno!bar	Milton Keynes	Buy The Wave Pictures Tickets
Mar 28, 2012 19:30	Clwb Ifor Bach	Cardiff	Buy The Wave Pictures Tickets from £10
Mar 29, 2012 19:30	The Fleece	Bristol	Buy The Wave Pictures Tickets from £9
Mar 30, 2012 20:00	B-side, Bunters	Truro	Buy The Wave Pictures Tickets from £5
Apr 01, 2012 20:00	The Cellar	Oxford	Buy The Wave Pictures Tickets from £8
Apr 05, 2012 19:30	Green Door Store	Brighton	Buy The Wave Pictures Tickets from £9