Weekend - La Varieté

I first hear the Weekend (not to be confused by the pop outfit) in a record store few years back. The guy working was streaming an NTS show and when this track started it stopped me. I had to shazam it (no shame in a shazam). About a month later I found a copy in the same store for $10 stuck over the $15 in permeant marker on the cover. What monster does that!?! This copy, admittedly, is $10 quality and I really need to replace it, but none the less it was a beautiful moment.

This album is so lush and stunning. It’s a firm favourite.

The Weekend are a Welsh band formed by Alison Statton following her Young Marble Giants project. It’s a swirling mix of dreamy indie pop, jazz, samba & afrobeat. The first half has hazy summer feels. I read somewhere the album sounds like a vacation with regrets and that’s definitely the sound of the second side with some slower, darker hangover indie sounds. Such a unique album, pushing something different in the early 80’s post punk indie era of Rough Trade Records.

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