Friday 15th October 2010

WEIRD DREAMS – “SUMMER BLACK”

Somewhat appropriately, it’s with “Summer Black” that Weird Dreams stake their claim as poster boys for what came after London’s summer of lo-fi scuzz. And it while it trades sludge for sparkle, it aint all smiles. For all its little boy blue charm and thoughts of June through to August , there’s the suggestion that it must have been some dark summer that shadowed these bros.

In that final coda there’s the shake of winter waving goodbye to a shitty summer, a could-have-been Coca Cola advert theme tune ushering in to fade the silent night gloom. Weird Dreams know it’s not holidays we got coming. Just ho-ho-heartbreak and a melody that hangs like a million divorcees on Xmas eve .

“Summer Black”, along with other WD track “Joan”, shares a seven with two Total Slacker songs, released by Marshall Teller very soon.

DOWNLOAD: Weird Dreams – “Summer Black”

(Photo: Emily Burtner)