{"id":65180,"date":"2018-07-04T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=65180"},"modified":"2023-06-16T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T17:27:06","slug":"review-weller-weller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-weller-weller\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Weller \u2013 Weller"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Originally the solo creation of Harrison Nantz, Philadelphia’s relative unknown quantity of Weller<\/strong> is completed by drummer Jeremy Berkin. With two EPs released since forming in 2016, ‘Weller’<\/em> is the self-titled full-length debut from the duo, and finds Nantz as the creative driving force behind short, simple emo-inflected guitar-pop tracks.<\/p>\n

The first point of note is that it is just that \u2013 short. With only two songs, ‘Standard’<\/em> and ‘Every Other Day’<\/em> breaching the three-minute mark and one, ‘Think Tank’<\/em>, timed at just a minute and 15 seconds, the entire record can be consumed three times in just over an hour.<\/p>\n

Brevity, of course, is not an issue in itself, but the simplicity can feel like it is begging for something more than a lone guitar and Nantz’s near-spoken, nasally vocal. ‘Standard’<\/em>‘s flashes of keyboard and banjo provide a rare change of scenery that is much welcome by the album’s midpoint.<\/p>\n