Strange Weekend
- Porcelain Raft
- Band Name: Porcelain Raft
- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Release Date: Jan 24, 2012
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Feb 22, 201282All in all, it's a solid debut effort and one that never spares on electronic dramatics and an extensive array of far-ranging ideas.
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Jan 27, 201280The legacy of Remiddi's latest LP, Strange Weekend, is the eerily beautiful atmosphere it creates, just like the work of older artists such as Angelo Badalamenti, and more recent work by Ariel Pink, Perfume Genius, and John Maus, who invest a huge amount of emotion and cerebral conceit into their work, which pads out their music with shambolic, poetic insulation.
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Jan 26, 201280Strange Weekend takes on the lofty task of musical multitasking and succeeds.
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Jan 25, 201280Strange Weekend is a very impressive debut album, full of craft, emotion, and songs that you'll want to listen to again and again.
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Jan 24, 201280'Strange Weekend''s gauzy dream-pop is almost incapable of provoking anything but love.
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Jan 19, 201280Underneath the shimmering haze of drum loops, tape hiss, and gently strummed guitars... [this] is ultimately a pop album - a flight of lo-fi fancy anchored by some very real(and very catchy) pop hooks.[#39, p.69]
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Jan 18, 201280Strange Weekend drifts and delights. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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Jan 24, 201279Remiddi has produced a truly excellent record which resonates emotionally and sonically.
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Feb 10, 201278Remiddi is able to successfully channel trippy psychedelia of beyond.
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Jan 24, 201275Built on meticulously constructed and delicately polished dream-pop soundscapes, delivered with urgency and momentum.
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Jan 30, 201274Porcelain Raft borrows liberally from both the shoegaze and dream-pop playbooks, and so we get layers of sonic gauze shot through with delicately strummed acoustic guitar patterns and Remiddi's reedy, rather androgynous voice.
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Feb 22, 201270Porcelain Raft's airy concoctions work best when you're not thinking about them.
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Feb 16, 201270In many ways, this album feels more like a culmination than a debut, and Remiddi's vast and varied musical experience infuse his songs with a sense of confidence and craftsmanship that is often lacking in the work of his younger and less experienced peers.
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Feb 2, 201270A perfectly pleasant contribution to the mysterious forces driving indie pop these days.
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Jan 30, 201270Strange Weekend merits return visits, and it rewards close listening.
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Jan 19, 201270Sonically the songs are strong.
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Jan 17, 201270This is an impressive debut and a solid step toward a more realised identity.
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Jan 17, 201270Most certainly a bedroom record affair and perhaps suffering for this fact but the overall sentiment captured make up for whatever shortcomings may be presented.
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Jan 17, 201265[Remiddi's] fastidious mentality manages to keep this song suite afloat, even if the sails aren't always full of creative wind.
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Jan 31, 201260Not yet a strength, lyrics probe the border between naive and trite. [Feb 2012, p.94]
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Jan 25, 201260There is nothing abrasive about Strange Weekend, nothing risky, nothing unique; there is instead just a shortage of "Wow!"
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Jan 19, 201250These subtle, sublime moments are few and far between as the songs on Strange Weekend start to slope downward and into a blur of mediocrity.
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Jan 18, 201240Opener Drifting In And Out, a shimmering piece of dream pop, is beautifully realised, but the other nine songs fail to live up to its promise. [Feb. 2012, p. 110]
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