When the Austin, TX quartet Holy Wave crafted their 2023 album Five of Cups, they had just emerged from the pandemic lockdown, crawling back into a world they hadn’t been sure would still exist when they were mired in the darkest days of 2020. Though the album functions both as a statement on surviving an uncertain era and as a standalone piece of art untethered to a specific timeframe, there was a curious and exhilarating evolutionary step between the band’s awakening from quarantine and the full-length album that spoke to the turbulent opening years of the ‘20s. In early 2022, Holy Wave embarked on their first tour in the wake of the lockdown—a West Coast run that ended in LA. With no shows booked for the way home, the band decided to spend a few extra days in LA recording at Studio 22 with their friend Tomas Dolas. While a few of these recordings would eventually be released as digital singles or part of split 7”s, the session contained a certain magic that warranted presenting the full tracklist as a complete mini-album. So it is with pleasure that Holy Wave presents Studio 22 Singles and B-Sides.
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