Sports by Weekend, released 9 November 2010.
This version of Sports comes as a 1xCD in a(n) Digipak packaging. -
2010 release from the Alt/Noise rockers. Combining noisy guitars, pounding rhythms and dark Post-Punk vibes in fresh ways isn't easy, but Weekend somehow does it effortlessly. Sports is one of the most assured debuts in recent memory, full of rumbling rhythms, layers of loud guitar and most of all great songs that pay special attention to texture and atmosphere while leavening even the most riotous moments with unexpected shards of melody.
To say that San Francisco’s Weekend‘s debut album ‘Sports’ is an intriguing listen would be the understatement of the year. This is an album full of o...
Brooks Hays - 14/Jan/2011
Like the growing noise pop scene itself, San Francisco trio Weekend (not to be confused with Baltimore’s similar-sounding up-and-comers Weekends) has ...
A.J. Ramirez - 03/Jan/2011
The problem with the American underground rock scene’s current fascination with third- and fourth-division late ‘80s indie label alt-rock (mainly focu...
Ed Comentale - 14/Dec/2010
Weekend’s new album Sports starts off like some kind of rock-and-roll stem cell: a post-punk umbilicus whipping in the sonic void. We hear a classic r...
Huw Nesbitt - 10/Dec/2010
Renaissance Gloom Principle #1: all moody post-punk bands shall trace genealogy to Ian Curtis’ Kleenex carton - what bollocks. Joy Division ripped off...
Philip Cosores - 01/Dec/2010
Noise. It’s the word your parents would use to describe your music when it was particularly trying for them. It is an insult placed on songs that are ...
Dylan Siniscalchi - 01/Dec/2010
Oh if only the entirety of Sports could sound like "Coma Summer." That brilliantly paced, delightfully brooding slow burner is fuzz-filled anthem for ...
MICHAEL MAROTTA - 30/Nov/2010
Even in an age of excessive internet awareness and never-ending blog hype, it's easy to miss a young touring band on their first stop through town. So...
Jordon Chiarelli - 23/Nov/2010
Buy at iTunesThe term 'post-punk' could not be any more ambiguous - hell, it basically sums up everything ever recorded past 1977. But of course, labe...
Maura McAndrew - 19/Nov/2010
Weekend’s Sports opens with “Coma Summer,” the record’s prettiest and most tuneful track. An undeniably catchy anthem—don’t expect to hear it in the b...