Vanilla Waves swirls genres such as spaghetti-western, garage rock, soul and surf into a bombastic and hook-filled sound. One can hear the clear influences of bands such as The Beach Boys, The Beatles and Lotion, put in a blender filled with tequila, Distortion, synthesizers and the brains of Ennio Morricone.

The band was formed by the fellow Swedes Axel and Wilmer, who during the boiling summer of 2017 worked together in a restaurant in central London. The duo decided to hang up their knives and pick up their axes instead. After an intense month of songwriting they reached out to their long-time friends Tille Tequila and Hockey Travolta, who joined in on for the recording sessions in studio trollan.