Weaves - Wide Open (2017)
Weaves - Wide Open (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +cue, log, m3u - 273 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 95 MB | 00:41:11
Indie Rock | Label: Kanine Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +cue, log, m3u - 273 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 95 MB | 00:41:11
Indie Rock | Label: Kanine Records
When Weaves wrote their debut self-titled album, released last year, the Toronto quartet were in the business of rattling fixed formulas. They peeled apart the classic roles of an indie rock band a singer, guitarist, bassist, and drummer so that each member ricocheted off the other, using Weaves as a space to deconstruct and then rebuild songs, like an espresso-laced jazz troupe set loose in a bounce house. As much as their first album was about living in the musical moment, their follow-up, Wide Open, is about reflecting on moments at large. Weaves shed their improvisational tendencies in favor of more polished pop, and this swap pushes frontwoman Jasmyn Burke’s songwriting to the foreground. It’s a welcome change that sees what Weaves can do inside a box instead of operating outside one.
After the band toured through the U.S. and UK mid-elections last year, Burke realized her personal experiences feed into universal struggles and wrote the meat of Wide Open. “In a way, I was thinking about it like Bruce Springsteen,” she said, “but my experience of the world couldn’t be less like Bruce Springsteen’s.” The similarities are easy to draw when Burke sings about issues like wealth inequality and racial tensions in suburban plots. The real Springsteen analog, however, is in how the bulk of Wide Open hits: there’s clean, hummable guitar lines; liberating, wordless bridges; and this overarching feeling that perseverance is both possible and worthy of pride. That’s why it opens with “#53,” a song about feeling compressed by financial and social limitations that Weaves pepper with glockenspiel while Burke nails falsettos with full lungs. There’s no wild guitar solo or unstructured drum fills. It’s saturated with vocal emotion that captures a relatable yearning instead.
The production makes Wide Open sound like the work of a rising pop star. But since Weaves tinker with it to bring out their art-school flair, it doesn’t feel like they nixed their old style. Morgan Waters’ wiry guitar on “Slicked” builds to an enormous chorus of noise. “Law and Panda,” one of the album’s punchiest songs, forgoes the unpredictable breakdowns of their past in favor of handclaps and charging fury from bassist Zach Bines and drummer Spencer Cole. The arty peculiarities that oversaturated their debut are repurposed into a controlled format. At times, they loosen their grip too much, like when the formulaic side of pop takes the reigns on “La La” and “Walkaway,” going on autopilot. But this is bent pop, and they pull off its highs with enough cool-headed confidence to veil its lows.
Their refinements work best when Burke stands front and center. The title track swims in reverb, a prom slow ballad of melancholic longing across all instruments, while she waxes self-reflective lines about creating amid rubble. She balances personal emotions and overarching observations over the whole of Wide Open, and it’s the strongest evidence that Burke is channeling her inner Springsteen after all. With Canadian throat singer Tanya Tagaq by her side, Burke turns “Scream” into a deranged anthem about loving yourself in the face of racial violence. Fuzzed guitars, drum crashes, and Tagaq’s guttural howls act as pins nailing Burke’s declarations against a wall: “We are living in a time when misery is just common circumstance” hangs beside “My thighs are too big, my head isn’t small, my brain is on fire, I’m feeling this fall.”
Individualistic sighs become communal armour “Get up on the table and scream your name,” goes “Scream” and Burke hands them out to anyone who’s in need. With their musical recklessness out of the way, Weaves prioritize lyrical strengths like these on Wide Open while still accenting their musical eccentricities. Weaves’ ambitious song structures used to be too large to wrangle. With Wide Open, they realize the straightforward tentpoles of pop may suit them after all.
TRACKLIST
01. #53
02. Slicked
03. Law and Panda
04. Walkaway
05. La La
06. Wide Open
07. Motherfucker
08. Scream
09. Gasoline
10. Grass
11. Puddle
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Weaves / Wide Open
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