a b Skinner, Tom (29 November 2022). "Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall's the Waeve Share New Song "Kill Me Again" ". NME . Retrieved 5 February 2023. a b c Redfern, Mark (19 January 2023). "The WAEVE (Rose Elinor Dougall + Graham Coxon) Share New Song "Over and Over" ". Under the Radar . Retrieved 5 February 2023. Redfern, Mark (19 January 2023). "The Waeve (Rose Elinor Dougall + Graham Coxon) Share New Song "Over and Over" ". Under the Radar . Retrieved 5 February 2023. Trendell, Andrew (20 April 2022). "Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall team up to form The WAEVE". NME . Retrieved 5 February 2023.

I’m not interested in the twee side of folk,” Dougall told NME. “We’re dealing with life and death and all that kind of thing. There’s a brutality to nature. It’s not all pastoral. Those are the visual things I feel that our music summons up.”Rettig, James (6 September 2022). "The Waeve – "Can I Call You" ". Stereogum . Retrieved 5 February 2023. The WAEVE - composed of Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall – release their eponymous debut album, out 3rd February 2023 on Transgressive Records. Green, Thomas H (2 February 2023). "Album: The Waeve - The Waeve". The Arts Desk . Retrieved 3 February 2023.

On 20 April 2022, The Waeve officially went public by announcing that they would be playing their first live show and releasing their debut single, "Something Pretty", the following month. [5] Their first explorations opened up a sonic universe neither had expected to find. Initially drawing on a shared love of English folk music, storytelling and the associated landscapes of their beleaguered island, they discovered a shared need to shed themselves of poisons, heartbreaks and defeats through music. Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall Add Extra London Date for New Band the Waeve". The List . Retrieved 30 March 2023. Jones, Damian (24 October 2022). "Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall's the Waeve announce 2023 UK tour and share new single". NME . Retrieved 30 March 2023. Coxon and Dougall combine forces, in other words, willing one another to take risks, basking in the ensuing, revelatory freedom, and studiously avoiding the temptations of what Lee Hazlewood called “girl boy songs”, with their narratives, double entendres and subversive stereotypes. There’s certainly no “Leather And Lace” here, and only one ‘traditional’ duet, the polished, doo-wop flavoured, out-of-character closer, “You’re All I Want To Know”, whose “ I ain’t letting you go-woah-woah-woah” motif is as likely to draw comparisons with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John as Patsy Cline. To be fair, neither’s terribly close.

Within a week we were recording. Our work was exploratory. Two people asked questions of each other, and as a consequence the void became less yawning. Music was created, and these two voices in the songs became two people: Rose and I.”

Graham Coxon, Rose Elinor announce first single and gig as the Waeve". Live4ever. 20 April 2022 . Retrieved 30 March 2023. Redfern, Mark (6 September 2022). "The Waeve (Rose Elinor Dougall + Graham Coxon) Announce Album, Share New Song "Can I Call You" ". Under the Radar . Retrieved 5 February 2023. Mason, Julia (21 April 2022). "The Great Escape (11 – 12 May) unveils full festival and conference schedule". God Is in the TV . Retrieved 30 March 2023. For all their focus on space, the WAEVE don’t shy away from lush, cinematic arrangements, with half of the songs stretching over six minutes. ‘Drowning’ counters its dreaminess with a portentous sense of dread, layering instruments to the point of cacophony; the interplay between the duo’s voices, meanwhile, has never been more thrilling. But there are moments that don’t spring to life in the same way, drawing attention to lyrics that can feel trite in their apocalyptic reflections. The robotic post-punk of ‘Someone Up There’, with its chorus of “You’ve lost your power/ It’s all gone sour,” feels labored, even if its spikiness is refreshing in the context of the album. And though their voices once again complement each other on ‘Over and Over’, the song is so languid that it seems to lose faith in its own message: “Still we grow older and older and older/ But something feels new/ Constantly changing forever.” a b c d Campbell, Lee (25 January 2023). "The Waeve are drawing out the blood and guts of their influences". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 5 February 2023.As both Dougall and Coxon are Pisceans and their complicated feelings towards Britain inspired their music with numerous references in the lyrics to water and sea, they decided to call themselves The Waeve using the old English spelling. [4] Going public and releasing The Waeve (2022–present) [ edit ]

Redfern, Mark (3 February 2023). "The Waeve — Stream the Debut Album From Rose Elinor Dougall and Graham Coxon's New Band". Under the Radar . Retrieved 30 March 2023. Campbell, Lee (23 January 2023). "The WAEVE are drawing out the blood and guts of their influences". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 5 February 2023.

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