Weekend – Jinx

Weekend are more modern and not just ‘neo’, and it comes through on Jinx....
Weekend : Jinx
7.8 Slumberland
2013 

Weekend : Jinx

Being from San Francisco, Weekend quickly got categorized in the neo-psych movement (since that’s where the original psych movement came from) with 2010 debut Sports and 2011’s Red EP (QRO review). However, there’s more to them than that, more modern and not just ‘neo’, and it comes through on their follow-up full-length, Jinx.

Starting with opener/single “Mirror”, Weekend have two boosted elements that put them above/out of the neo-psych scene: drive and fuzz.  The drive to pieces like “Mirror” and “Oubliette” is more reminiscent of road staples Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (QRO live review) or noise kings A Place To Bury Strangers (QRO spotlight on) – and not just because Weekend dress in all black like those bands (QRO photos from Jinx release party).  Meanwhile, the fuzz is not so much neo-sixties/seventies as it draws from the alt-eighties/nineties, more shoegaze and atmospherics.

Not all of the pieces on Jinx reach that high – “Celebration, FL” feels a bit run-of-the-mill fuzz, and the record gets more sedate on its back half, before reaching up & out with closer “Just Drive”.  Good words of advice for Weekend.

Weekend – Oubliette

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