Waves is the fourth studio album by new wave band Katrina and the Waves, released in 1986 by Capitol Records. It followed their US and UK Top 30 album Katrina and the Waves (1985), reaching No. 49 on Billboard 200 and No. 70 on the UK Albums Chart.
Waves sold less than half of what its predecessor had, generating a modest hit with the single "Sun Street" (UK No. 22).
Reception
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Matthew Greenwald wrote that although Waves is "not a disaster by any stretch," it's certainly not up to the standards of their previous album Katrina and the Waves. Part of this, according to Greenwald, is because main songwriter Kimberley Rew only contributed two songs to the album. Greenwald felt that there are some fine moments, however, such as Vince de la Cruz's "Sun Street" and Katrina Leskanich's "Tears for Me." He added that Rew's two songs, "Is That It" and "Lovely Lindsay," are "mini-masterpieces", and that they "eventually push the group and this album somewhere near the goal line."
| style="text-align:center;"|92
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|Canada (Canadian Albums Chart)
| style="text-align:center;"|35
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|Finland (The Official Finnish Charts)
| style="text-align:center;"|17
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|Norway (VG-lista)
| style="text-align:center;"|12
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|Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)
| style="text-align:center;"|3
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|UK (UK Albums Chart)
!style="width:2em;font-size:90%;"| IRE<br />
!style="width:2em;font-size:90%;"| NED<br />
!style="width:2em;font-size:90%;" | UK<br />
!style="width:2em;font-size:90%;"| US<br />
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| rowspan="2" | 1986
| style="text-align:left;"| "Is That It?"
|82
|25
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|—
|82
|70
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| style="text-align:left;"| "Sun Street"
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| —
| 19
| 46
| 22
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| colspan="16" style="font-size:90%"| "—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
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