Weekend (Underground Lovers album)

Weekend
Studio album by
Underground Lovers
Released5 April 2013
GenreRock
Length46:34
LabelRubber
ProducerGlenn Bennie, Vincent Giarrusso, Wayne Connolly
Underground Lovers chronology
Wonderful Things: Retrospective
(2011) 		Weekend
(2013)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Herald Sun[1]
The Age[2]
Sunday Herald Sun[3]
The Courier-Mail[4]

Weekend is the seventh studio album by Australian indie rock/electronic band Underground Lovers, the band's first after a 12-year hiatus. It followed a reunion for Sydney and Melbourne performances at the 2009 Homebake festival and the release of their 2011 retrospective album, Wonderful Things. A Rubber Records media release said: "This led to sporadic carefully selected shows and the realisation that the band still had something to say."

"The moment we got back together it clicked", lyricist and vocalist Vincent Giarrusso told The Courier-Mail. "We did one rehearsal, we had six or seven song ideas and we went to the studio to record them. The first four songs on the album are from that initial recording and some of those are first takes. The song 'Can For Now', what you are hearing is the first time we played it." The band also reunited with producer Wayne Connolly, producer of their 1997 album Ways T' Burn, to get the guitar sounds they wanted.[5]

Giarrusso said the album was inspired by the energy of director Jean-Luc Godard's 1960s cinema hit Weekend, and Godard's film was used in their video for "Au Pair".

Track listing

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(All songs by Underground Lovers, lyrics by Vincent Giarrusso):

  1. "Spaces" – 3:41
  2. "Can For Now" – 3:17
  3. "Haunted (Acedia)" – 4:58
  4. "Dream To Me" – 4:42
  5. "Signs of Weakness" – 4:15
  6. "Riding" – 4:55
  7. "St Germain" – 3:50
  8. "Au Pair" – 4:22
  9. "In Silhouette" – 4:04
  10. "The Lie That Sets You Free" – 7:14

Personnel

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  • Richard Andrew – drums
  • Maurice Argiro – bass guitar
  • Glenn Bennie – guitar
  • Emma Bortignon – bass
  • Vincent Giarrusso – vocals, keyboards
  • Philippa Nihill – vocals, guitar, keyboard

References

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  1. ^ Cameron Adams, Herald Sun, 25 April 2013.
  2. ^ Craig Mathieson, The Age, 5 April, 2013.
  3. ^ Graeme Hammond, Sunday Herald Sun, 21 April 2013.
  4. ^ Noel Mengel, The Courier-Mail, 27 April 2013.
  5. ^ Mengel, Noel (25 May 2013). "Lovers back in the groove". The Coiurier-Mail. Brisbane.
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