Weakened Friends: Common Blah (Vinyl LP)
Don Giovanni Records
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Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. Common Blah is the debut full-length by Portland, ME's Weakened Friends. Founded by songwriter Sonia Sturino, bassist Annie Hoffman, and drummer Cam Jones in 2015, the trio is a low pressure outlet for emotionally volatile music. Engineered and produced by Hoffman and perfected over the last year, the record broadcasts heavy feelings amid screech and feedback with little more than a distortion pedal to clog up the signal chain. Many of the songs reckon with deep mid-20s malaise - with the feeling of being young, stuck, and settling for less. Sometimes, things look good on the outside, but they're not working, Sturino explains. That's how it used to be for me. I'd hear, 'You have a really cool job. You live in a cool city. Your band is cool.' It was 'Common Blah' though because I was miserable. I didn't care. Now, I'm at the other end of the spectrum. People do something that they think they're supposed to do when it's not what they should be doing and it doesn't make them happy. In a lot of ways, this is the first time I've found happiness. I wrote the lyrics about the time before that happiness.
Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. Common Blah is the debut full-length by Portland, ME's Weakened Friends. Founded by songwriter Sonia Sturino, bassist Annie Hoffman, and drummer Cam Jones in 2015, the trio is a low pressure outlet for emotionally volatile music. Engineered and produced by Hoffman and perfected over the last year, the record broadcasts heavy feelings amid screech and feedback with little more than a distortion pedal to clog up the signal chain. Many of the songs reckon with deep mid-20s malaise - with the feeling of being young, stuck, and settling for less. Sometimes, things look good on the outside, but they're not working, Sturino explains. That's how it used to be for me. I'd hear, 'You have a really cool job. You live in a cool city. Your band is cool.' It was 'Common Blah' though because I was miserable. I didn't care. Now, I'm at the other end of the spectrum. People do something that they think they're supposed to do when it's not what they should be doing and it doesn't make them happy. In a lot of ways, this is the first time I've found happiness. I wrote the lyrics about the time before that happiness.