Weekend Recovery – Esoteric

If you are ‘the’ avid reader of my reviews over the last few years, then it will be obvious to you that the passion of new music that is my reason for doing this, has never wained, and when bands like Weekend Recovery come along, and then release an album that should! be listened to by you the music lovers and enthusiasts, its even more exciting that I get to listen and give it all the big words I can think of (not many then) to make you want to listen and enjoy even half as much as I did, this would be enough to make it all worth while.

But and there is a huge but with the album Esoteric, I don’t want to settle on hoping you listen and hear the same ridiculously great album as I did, because I’m gonna stick my very old neck out and say this will take some beating as album of the year so far.

Kicking off the album is the single release ‘Chemtrails’ an absolute banger (yeah I still use old ppl words like that) of a tune, a pop sounding bounce along track that actually gave me some kind of trepidation, which was soon at ease, when you get to the vocals and lyrical simplicity of the song, a empowerment song that does pretty much exactly what it sets out to do with ease and plenty enough impact, this is followed by a very similar sounding ‘Dangerous’, although this track heads of on a slightly heavier direction, which is then perfectly followed by a song that I thought might be my favourite on the album, ‘In The Crowd’ this has to be the most bass driven of the album (always a winner for myself), I love how this song sets of on a totally different journey musically than previous tracks, which when you get deeper and deeper into this album, you’ll soon realise that sticking to a style is not what this band are about. Yes they sit on a similar vein when it comes to what they write about, from empowerment, to hatred of fake friends and the way the music business works right now, and of course how life as a human being growing up in this fucked up world right now, but wow do this band know how to make it all so perfectly listenable and never boring.

From guitar/bass led moments that soar and cut you like a knife in ‘I don’t Like You’, the recently released head banging monster that is ‘No Guts All The Glory’, to electronic grunge Bob Vylan esque songs like ‘No Saints’, or the dark and brutal self loathing mess that is ‘Insanity’ a crawl around the head of someone who fights this every day and fucking hell what a tune!

Its not enough that Weekend Recovery’s Lori Forster can snarl, rap, scream, and hits notes that will make your eyes water, no this is only the surface we are scratching here, as punk/indie singers go, there are not many that can be as versatile and so damn sickeningly fucking talented, but to do all this and also sing like a bloody nightingale on the beautifully moving ‘Her’ and the unnervingly eerie ‘Departure Day’. 

Album the year?  Only half the year gone so far, but this just set that bar somewhere above the stratosphere, a collection of Punk/Indie/Pop songs that pummels your sense what can be in music, and gives you what should be! 

Released on June 9th via Criminal Records

Go check out this great band on FACEBOOK SPOTIFY TWITTER