PacificUV
- Weekends (Mazarine
Records)
For their third LP, the trio of Clay Jordan (guitars,
vocals), Suny Lyons (guitars, bass, keyboards, vocals) and Lemuel Hayes (drums,
vibes), aka PacificUV, move from the sprawling ambient landscape of their debut
(Rolling Stone called it a “masterpiece”) and 2008’s “Longplay 2” to an
approach which keeps its dreamy, self-medicated synthetic symphonies well
within the confounds of electro-pop.
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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