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- Summary: The fourth studio album for the Athens, Georgia, indie pop band tells the story of someone using drugs to stop the pain he or she feels after the end of a relationship.
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- Record Label: Mazarine Records
- Genre(s): Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Indie Pop, Space Rock
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Apr 11, 2012Weekends is an inspired assortment of astutely executed ideas packed into 12 flowing pieces that deserves a wider audience than its likely to receive.
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Q MagazineApr 25, 2012Funny Girl is so good it makes you think a parallel career as huge stars ought to be in the offing. [May 2012, p.103]
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MagnetJun 14, 2012The music on Weekends is balanced between bright, up-tempo numbers and cheerless explorations of loneliness and heartache, but even on the dance tunes, the somber lyrics keep things from getting too exuberant.
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Feb 1, 2012Weekends captures the ambivalent mélange of feelings that makes it damn hard to leave the couch after a crushing break-up.
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Feb 1, 2012Weekends is an overall success for the band, and a good showcase for the band's ability to change between genres effectively.
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Feb 1, 2012Considering how the lyrical content and flat as a rug singing in Weekends was written for an elementary school child to understand, they probably should've kept it that way; it occasionally downgrades the songs to a point where they are unable to rise above their cheesiness.
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Under The RadarFeb 2, 2012Too many have the feel of a low-budget production, and not in the loveable, lo-fi way. [#39, p.75]
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