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- Summary: This is the San Francisco-based trio's debut full-length release.
- Record Label: Slumberland
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Noise Pop
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 13
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Mixed: 1 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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Dec 1, 2010The result should be unbearably bleak and self-absorbed, but Sports catches Weekend gazing not at its shoes, but into its soul.
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Dec 1, 2010For a band still very much in its infancy, Sports is an astonishing body of work far beyond any kind of expectation you'd put at its creators' feet.
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Jan 13, 2011With these influences placed front and center in their tunes, Weekend runs the risk of being written off as a derivative clone; as a band more interested in replicating their heroes than building off the foundation they laid. Fortunately, Weekend has enough personality to ward off this unfair label.
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Dec 1, 2010The shoegazy noise genre is again slowly creeping toward the pop spectrum, and Sports might push it even farther toward the indie mainstream, but it needs a new tag - let's call it blackout pop.
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Dec 1, 2010Though it's their first time out, Weekend has created a record that bellows out of speakers, that bites and sometimes doesn't play fair. Though uneven in areas, Sports packs a sucker punch. Best sit still and brace yourself.
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Under The RadarDec 23, 2010You expect Sports to hit its genre marks. When it admirably swings for the fences, you can't help but ask for more. [Year End 2010, p.74]
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Jan 3, 2011Listening to Sports, you kind of get the feeling that the band was signed because it's such a generic noise-pop vehicle.