WAWAWOW's Shaun Allen Laughs In The Face Of Perfection

Every so often bands are formed organically, other times it takes a bit of manufacturing. Four-piece WAWAWOW lie somewhere in between. After three of its members were handpicked for another band, everything else began to fall into place.

"A singer assembled us as instrumentalists in a pop rock band, however, we got along really well musically and jammed way too much," drummer Shaun Allen explains. "Us three started a new group, spent years in obscurity experimenting with our sound, and once we added a fourth member, we knew the sound was ready."

Allen and his psych-junk cohorts are currently knee-deep in creating tunes for their upcoming 2018 EP, but listeners shouldn't be expecting a more streamlined sound. On the contrary, WAWAWOW have decidedly made music that is still a little rough around the edges.

"We aimed for perfection in the studio... but after we achieved it, it didn't sound like us," Allen muses. "We re-recorded much of it with our old inferior gear in a garage as it just felt much closer to our actual untamed sound."

Their current single, Fluoro Fitzwilliam, is just a taste of what their upcoming EP will be sonically, and it appears 'psych-junk' is very much front and centre.

"Thematically the music is kind of a balance between very tight but bent rigidness and absurdly chaotic sound." Allen elaborates, "We wanted to explore just how far we could take a kind of absurd excess, into this overblown cartoonish image.

"It's unsexy."