{"id":6573,"date":"2014-10-28T07:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T07:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&p=6573"},"modified":"2016-05-12T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T23:17:37","slug":"oog02014","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/oog02014\/","title":{"rendered":"Weep: Weep (2014) (CD) – 50% Off"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1. Mouse Traps Close
\n2. Wake Up It’s a Dream
\n3. Everything Falls from Trees
\n4. What Have I Done to Myself
\n5. Only a Time
\n6. The Laugh Is Gone
\n7. The Walls
\n8. Snowdrops
\n9. Stand Away
\n10. The Wanting House
\n11. Almost Said
\n12. Icehouse<\/p>\n

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Lush and powerful \u2018Dark Rock\u2019 with a bit of Shoegaze panache.<\/p>\n

Remember WEEP\u2019s self titled album WEEP? Remember where you were when you first heard it? Oh, the sweet nostalgia! Well it\u2019s back before it arrived! Released for the first time again, WEEP\u2019s classic album WEEP<\/B> is finally available on Compact Disc. More from Doc on this concept<\/A>.<\/p>\n

I Die You Die review<\/A> by Bruce.
\nThe last time we heard from Weep they were reaching pinnacles of ornate, gothy new wave triumph, their heart-on sleeve ethos being wed to ramped up production and tossed into a starry stratosphere. Alate<\/B> was a soaring victory for Doc Hammer & co, there\u2019s no question of that. The tack that the group\u2019s taken with their fourth full-length, from its unassuming eponymous name to its intentionally buzz-forsaking promotional strategy (more on that later) to its less bombastic yet no less memorable sound seems specifically designed to avoid putting Weep in the same category or conversation as its predecessor.<\/p>\n

Opening cuts \u201cMouse Traps Close\u201d and \u201cWake Up It\u2019s A Dream\u201d carry a fair bit of the regal carriage of Alate<\/B>, but the focus seems to have shifted to tunes moving at a comfortably brisk pace and holding a tight internal harmonic sense rather than striking out with flurries of drama and rhapsody (string and horn heavy \u201cThe Wanting House\u201d being a notable exception). Softer pinks and blues shine through on the nostalgic \u201cOnly A Time\u201d. The instrumentation\u2019s of an even-keeled ilk; while I wouldn\u2019t claim that keyboards are less prominent than on Alate<\/B>, they seem to hold closer to the melodies carved out by the guitars and Doc\u2019s vocals. Speaking of the latter, things are more under control than last time out with less violence in Doc\u2019s voice, but he\u2019s still pushing himself in new directions: a more balanced croon, as on \u201cMouse Traps Close\u201d and \u201cThe Laugh Is Gone\u201d connotes Cascade-era Murphy, something I never would have connected with Weep (despite their previous Bauhaus cover). That said, I found myself almost never reaching for comparison while listening to Weep: in adopting a more melodic but less imposing approach (with tunes not running for much more than four minutes), the band feels contemporary and at peace with their own sound.<\/p>\n

This of-the-day feel is a bit ironic given that Weep is being presented as a \u201cre-release\u201d in an attempt to circumvent new album hype and expectation, the idea being that new albums always drag in expectations of new heights and hitherto unexplored horizons when they march on in through the door, whereas re-releases are simply smiled at fondly, like catch-up phone calls from old friends. In the band\u2019s own words, by anachronistically tossing the record back in time, \u201cpeople have come around and accepted Weep as its own thing. The nonexistent hype has died down, the expectations no longer color our desire.\u201d As both a fan and critic, I couldn\u2019t help but let this pitch inform my listening (and if you think Weep have no patience for new album hype, hacks like me offer nothing but a \u201cknee jerk opinion [which] sticks around forever, coming up every time someone sticks their finger down Google\u2019s throat\u201d). Specifically drawing the listener\u2019s attention to the lack of promo might be a bit of \u201cdon\u2019t think about pink elephants\u201d jiu-jitsu, but either way I found that it laid the groundwork well for what Weep had to offer: don\u2019t expect it to reinvent the wheel, just sit back and enjoy hearing a band do what they do (for all its relaxed qualities, this album has plenty of tunes which I\u2019d count amongst their best like \u201cThe Laugh Is Gone\u201d and \u201cEverything Falls From Trees\u201d). Humbler in scope and ambition, Weep makes its charms felt through subtler means, but I\u2019m guessing that\u2019s exactly how the band wants it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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