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Rock Duo Waver Release New Album ‘Space and Time’
Rock duo Waver return with a resonant statement of intent on their new full-length album, Space and Time. A 13-track offering steeped in nostalgia yet driven by forward momentum, the record melds the grit of 1990s rock with the refined perspective of decades-long musical partnership. Now streaming across all major platforms, it marks both a revival and a reinvention.
The story of Waver begins in the late ’90s at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, where Mike Sartor and Dorsey Stone first crossed paths as roommates. What followed was an organic creative alliance built on contrast and chemistry—Sartor’s classic rock songwriting grounding Stone’s intricate, progressive guitar flourishes. From the outset, their sound was equal parts muscular and melodic, intimate yet expansive.
After earning a reputation as a fixture of the Boston live music circuit in the early 2000s, the duo stepped away to pursue divergent paths. Their reunion in late 2024, however, was guided by clarity and purpose: to craft a record that honoured their roots while embracing their growth as musicians and storytellers. The result is a body of work that feels both reflective and revitalised.
Recorded at Ugly Duck Studios in Boston, Space and Time is a masterclass in collaboration. Sartor handles lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, organ, and bass, while Stone contributes lead vocals and searing guitar work. Drummer Brendan McGillin anchors the record’s rhythmic core, doubling as a sound engineer alongside Dan Babai. Highlights include Stone’s “Always Awake” and “Delivery Is Free,” alongside the jointly penned “I Miss You.”
Across its 56-minute runtime, Space and Time captures the delicate tension between memory and momentum. From the shimmering tones of “Silvertone” to the aching vulnerability of “I Miss You,” Waver deliver an album that resonates with authenticity. It’s a bold reintroduction—one that bridges past and present with striking emotional clarity.
“With ‘Space and Time,’ Waver delivers a powerful return that feels both timeless and deeply personal, capturing the spirit of ‘90s rock while showcasing the growth and chemistry that only decades of collaboration can produce,” shares music publicist Danielle Holian, Decent Music PR.
‘What’s Next?’, the sophomore album from Danish artist NP York, is a dreamy indie-rock record that reflects on lost youth and the places, people, and versions of ourselves that we leave behind as we grow older.
Written in the aftermath of a severe period of depression and as somewhat an outsider of Copenhagen’s music scenes, ‘What’s Next?’ is an album about the strange distance that develops between who we were and who we’re becoming. Across the record’s 10 tracks, NP York turns that distance into melancholic, guitar-driven songs about aging, memory, friendship, ambition, and the quiet realization that youth is something you can never quite return to.
Rather than treating growing older as a simple loss, ‘What’s Next?’ lives in the tension between grief and acceptance as it moves between existential reflections and epic moments of blissful uplift. There’s the paradox of leaping headfirst into new love when you know the cost of failed romance in ‘As Bold As A Heart’, there’s revisiting late teenage night drives and old friendships in ‘One More Day’ and there’s the effervescent gem ‘Trier’, which deals with holding on, waiting for answers and persevering.
Musically, ‘What’s Next?’ draws from the emotional immediacy of indie rock, balancing chiming guitars and restless rhythms with expansive poignancy. NP York’s rich baritone vocals anchor down lyrics that combine a poet’s ear for emotion with a humourist’s wit as he ironically muses on childhood dreams and expectations from the reality of becoming a man in his mid-30s and the absurdities and chaos of the world around him.
The result is a record that feels nostalgic without becoming sentimental, a collection of songs less interested in preserving the past than in understanding why we miss it. As the wild and exuberant yearning for youth in tracks like ‘LIE!’ and ‘As Bold As A Heart’ turn to maturity in more mellow tracks like ‘Let’s Talk’ and ‘Better Place’, ‘What’s Next?’ becomes about a past that has shaped us and the moment we realize we have outgrown it. It asks what happens when places that once felt like home become a memory, when old friends begin living different lives, and when the future starts to feel less like an open road and more like something that requires choosing.
‘What’s Next?’ follows NP York’s 2024 debut album ‘Music for Fools’, which was a sumptuous intimate singer-songwriter affair of personal catharsis featuring graceful string arrangements by Who Killed Bambi, alongside subdued pianos and raw guitars. Backed again by his band of musician friends ‘The Fools’ and recorded live with producers Kaspar Kaae and Asger Techau (David Bowie, Lou Reed and Tony Visconti) at the helm, there seems to be more letting go, nerve and release in ‘What’s Next?’, as the apathy of feeling lost in the world, makes way for the optimism of new love, a revived sense of creativity and the constant urge to explore and the question: WHAT’S NEXT?.
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