Los Angeles, CA (August 12, 2026) – Last month, Wavves and Say Anything announced their forthcoming collaborative album, Cherry Soda, due September 18 via I Surrender Records, with the LP’s scorching lead single, “Deathx1k,” and its accompanying music video directed by Stephen Coad. After garnering praise from the likes of Pitchfork, Consequence and Stereogum, today, the duo of Nathan Williams and Max Bemis return with album standout “Still Alive,” which premiered earlier today on FLOOD Magazine, who wrote the song “…falls directly in line with the soaring power-pop choruses both Williams and Max Bemis have long proven proficient in.” The album, produced by Aaron Rubin (Blink 182), features ten new songs, co-written by Bemis and Williams. Pre-order on vinyl here and CD here.
Speaking on the origins of the new single, Williams recalls that “‘Still Alive’ was a random voice note I found in my phone. I recorded the initial melody and lyric in the bathroom at a dive bar called the Club Marina and then completely forgot about it for a few weeks. One day, a month or two later, I noticed the voice note and was like, ‘OH YEAH!’ After that, the full song came together in forty minutes. It was just one of those songs that had already written itself. God bless the Club Marina.”
Speaking on the origins of his partnership with Bemis, Williams recalls that “He was Wavves adjacent. He’d been on tour with our drummer (Ross Traver) and our friend Justice Tripp (Angel Du$t). I’m a very curious person creatively, and somehow, Max told me he was a fan. After really digging into his catalog, I was kind of in shock. His records are really interesting. I wanted to see what an early 2000s Wavves emo record would sound like. That was the idea. To make a mall emo record.”
Bemis says “We kind of wrote to each other’s situations. We’re both very different people, but we get along really well. As writers, we pushed ourselves. He became more emo and I became more Wavves-y. I think we brought out some of the stuff that isn’t most obvious in each other. I may be singing stuff that sounds kind of bleak, but that’s kind of like Nate’s whole shtick, although he’s actually a very sweet, sensitive guy.”
