aaamusic | On 18, Sep 2011

Third EP for San Francisco trio Weekend, another gem discovered by Slumberland Records. After End Times, released as a split 7” with Young Prisms, Weekend come back with Red, 5 songs between nostalgic shoegaze and projections into a ‘horrific’ future.

 

In fact, while Sweet Sixteen starts like a slow paced version of Glasvegas and ends like an odd sleeping song whispered by Thurston Moore, it is with the other songs that the true nature of Weekend comes out.

 

Hazel, with its Joy Division’s tempo, sounds like the Horrors of Primary Colours launched in hyperspace, where human nature is preserved only by a guitar a la The Drums.

 

Your Own Nothing is grunge nihilism reverberated in salsa Jesus and Mary Chain, the ones of Darklands though. References to Faris Badwan & Co. come back with The One You Want. With its initial riff that evocates a dawning Robert Smith, and with is Neu!-like pace, it is a cascade of emotional post punk overloaded with explosions worth of The Edge of Zoo Station.

 

With its hypnotic rhythm and its Bauhaus atmosphere, Golfer is the perfect epitaph for an EP that establishes Weekend as one of the most interesting discoveries of Slumberland.

 

Author: Lorenzo Coretti