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Best friends since the age of 11, the members of Wallows have spent most of their lives obsessing over music together, steadily gathering a musical vocabulary that’s expansive and erratic and wildly eclectic. On their full-length debut Nothing Happens, the L.A.-based trio puts that vocabulary to work and draws from infinite inspirations: scores to Spike Jonze movies, the Beatles’ most rhapsodic digressions, bedroom pop and lo-fi hip-hop and ’70s post-punk. The result is an album that’s endlessly unpredictable, yet somehow as familiar and deeply felt as the world inside your head. The ever-shifting sound of Nothing Happens isn’t just the outcome of Wallows’ following their most idiosyncratic instincts: it’s also a reflection of the album’s volatile climate. With each member now in his early 20s, Wallows look back on the impossible mess of adolescence and exactingly capture the most chaotic and unwieldy emotions. Told in vignettes at turns sharply detailed and hazed in the fog of memory, Nothing Happens ultimately embodies both the melancholy of growing up and a wary determination to move forward. For Wallows, the release of Nothing Happens marks the realization of one of their most closely held and near-lifelong ambitions. “One thing we’ve said since we were like 14, and first had our minds blown by all these bands who mean a lot to us, is that we’d love to make an album that other people could feel the same way about. We talked about our debut album so much growing up, and this record really feels like the most honest statement we could make after all these years of working together. We’d love for people to feel that and find their own meaning in the songs, and hopefully get inspired to go out and make something of their own.” - Wallows