{"id":24710,"date":"2014-02-12T17:40:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-the-weaks-the-world-is-a-terrible\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:33:29","slug":"album-review-the-weaks-the-world-is-a-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-the-weaks-the-world-is-a-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Weaks – The World Is a Terrible Place and I Hate It and I Want to Die"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Both the opening track and the title of The Weaks<\/strong>\u2019 new EP \u2018The World Is a Terrible Place and I Hate It and I Want to Die\u2019<\/em> are deceptively depressing. The latter\u2019s irony is more easily discerned; it being a tongue-in-cheek reference to a band not unknown to these parts. Yet at first glance, the empty melancholy of the Philadephia duo\u2019s newest title (their first \u201cstandard\u201d release after their “a song a week” project) appears to have infected their usually upbeat style. “I am separating \/ I am separating from myself”<\/em> is sung over a dreary, beaten chord. The gloom is swiftly dissipated by an almost joyous explosion of instruments, guided by the kind of lead guitar melody that originally made Weezer\u2019s output so special.<\/p>\n

The comparison is apt up to a certain point. Weezer\u2019s early power-pop found were eminently accessible because their awkward, nerdy-metalhead quirks were formulated into something catchy and a little retro. You\u2019ll find them at their most similar on a track like \u2018To Thine Own Self Be True\u2019<\/em>, but this is more an exception than the rule. The Weaks<\/strong>, for one, are a little less tidy in their instrumentation. Two musicians can only make so much noise, something they remedy by buffing their sound out a little with some effect-lading. There\u2019s also the matter of their somewhat more agressive (and perhaps downbeat) vocal style. A good example is \u2018Nietzche\u2019s Harvest Song\u2019<\/em>, on which the instruments make big messy upbeat fun -a hint of the Pixies perhaps- whereas the vocals shift from punky to dreamy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Their punk drive is at highest velocity on \u2018Instantaneous Vertical Speed\u2019<\/em> and \u2018How To Put An Audience To Sleep In Less Than Two Minutes\u2019<\/em>. The first is a speedy romp that somehow comes off as weirdly laid-back and casual. The latter, on the other hand, is a little more forceful, and the full throttle is considerably more tangible. The band career forth to the beat of a consistently beaten snare and a dirty-ass bassline, but they offer a counterpoint to the aggression through light harmonies and a cheeky guitar solo. They close with \u2018Dunce Pageant\u2019<\/em> whose opening moments is The Weaks<\/strong> at their most credibly emotional. That sentimentality is fleetingly matched by soft, echoing, strumming but they can only restrain themselves for so long, and the summery colourfulness of theirs swiftly makes a comeback. Both of those would\u2019ve worked on their own, but that shift seems indicative of the band as a whole: unwilling to give in to pure sadness.<\/p>\n

As such, the sentiment is never allowed to take over, the overpowering fun inevitably the winner time and time again. The Weaks<\/strong> are jolly by nature, but there\u2019s a layer of melancholy that\u2019s just begging to be uncovered by repeated listens. Should they want to really eschew any comparisons to above-mentioned band, they would do well to explore that exciting discrepancy between form and content. For the time being, \u2018The World is a Terrible Place and I Hate It and I Want To Die\u2019<\/em> is a solid entry point.<\/p>\n

3.5\/5<\/p>\n

\u2019The World is a Terrible Place and I Hate It and I Want to Die\u2019<\/em> by The Weaks<\/strong> is out February 11th on Lame-O Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Weaks<\/strong> links: Facebook<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by James Berclaz-Lewis (@swissbearclaw<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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