PacificUV
- Weekends (Mazarine
Records)

A loose lyrical concept asks the question: what does
one do on the weekends when a relationship has broken down? Underpinned by the
dream triptych (“Friday… Saturday… and Sunday Night Dream”), it spans the album
providing an aching intro, a deep and distant centrepiece and a stifling and
climatic penultimate track.
Whilst they draw on a myriad of influences - the
breathy narcotic stilted vocal delivery of “Just 4 Kix” and “Baby Blue”, and
the ability to hold an anxious tempo tips winks to Messrs J Spaceman, Sonic
Boom and Bobby Gillespie. “Funny Girl” has all the 80s electro-pop guts of OMD
whilst the vocoder robotics of “Ballerina” and “Unplug Me” recall Kraftwerk and
Air meets Electronic – yet the album retains a fresh and charming perspective. It
achieves its aim, to make the perfect soundtrack for a chemically imbalanced
weekend.
Willsk
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