WAVE"STATE OF MIND"
(Warner/Canada, 2002)
"New Sensation"
Comprised of singer Paul Gigliotti and guitarist Dave Thomson, Wave were an unfortunately short-lived pop duo who released two albums of inoffensive but delightfully catchy pop, in the vein of BBMak or fellow Canadian group SoulDecision. I personally can't choose either album over the other as a favorite, because they're both fantastic background music for a sunny spring day ... or as foreground music to sing along to. If you buy one, you might as well pick up the other -- if you can find them, that is, as they both are out of print and used copies seem to be hard to come by.
Their second album, "State of Mind", does show a bit of a broader sonic pallette than their debut, with the superb "Don't Say Sarah" (which sounds like a long-lost Hall & Oates track), more rocking numbers like "That's How It Feels" and "Morning Delight", and the beautifully breezy closer "Midnight Driving" (about as melancholy as a terminally bright-eyed and bushy-tailed duo like Wave can sound).
They scored a modest hit with the single "California", from their debut album "Nothing As It Seems", but apparently their second album's performance was disappointing and they never released a third. Such a shame ... my CD shelves could easily have made room for at least one or two more albums of this aural cotton-candy.
Aww, I love Wave! You captured them exactly, too. I live in perpetual hope that someday someone will upload some of their music videos (heck, I just want one full one!) to YouTube. I think you've inspired me to go put on their albums.
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