Afraid Of Heights

2013, Mar 26

Apple Spotify Indie Rock 96 Mom + Pop/Warner Records Pitchfork 7.8/10 A.V. Club B The Needle Drop 6/10 NME 3.5/5 The Line of Best Fit 7/10 Paste 7.5/10 Rolling Stone 4/5 DIY 4/5 All Music 2.5/5 Exclaim! 8/10 Under The Radar 6.0/10 Loud and Quiet 6/10 Slant 2.5/5 Pop Matters 7/10 Spectrum Culture 55% Beats Per Minute 79% Uncut 7/10

Pitchfork 7.8/10 Afraid of Heights is the proper full-length follow-up to Wavves' 2010 breakthrough King of the Beach*.* Working with producer John Hill, it's Nathan Williams' best-sounding album to date, with touches of strings and background vocals from Jenny Lewis.

The Line of Best Fit 7/10 With his fourth full-length, LA's Nathan Williams delivers a consistently fun whistlestop tour of his nineties influences

Rolling Stone 4/5 Check out our album review of Artist's Afraid of Heights on Rolling Stone.com.

Under The Radar 6.0/10 Thus follows the Under the Radar guide to writing a decent surf rock song. (1) Get the guitars out and play something a bit Dinosaur Jr.-y. (2) Sound, like, laid back and whatever, dude. (3) Do something a bit Beach Boys-y, like a vocal harmony, some chim

Slant 2.5/5 Afraid of Heights points to a set of punk-rock signifiers rather than thoughtfully engaging with them.