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Weevil:
Drunk on Light
Theres more to music than just strumming a tune. The sound of a track is so important to us, well spend ages twisting and distorting an instrument until its something special. The words are as important and always really personal. Weevil Whatever the inspiration behind this UK duo, the twisting and distorting has worked, and the resulting LP is something special. The sound is sort of Explosions in the Sky meets Postal Service meets The Rachels meets New Order. Exquisitely beautiful, upbeat and catchy, emotional and moving, and rich with layers of ironically minimalist texture. Really I cannot say enough about this band theyre a love at first listen real deal, excellent indie rock/experimental/folk/jazz phenomenon. The instruments used are all listed on the back of their LP: thumb piano, xylophone, camera film pot full of brown rice, toy guitar, drums, radios, penny whistle, voices, customized drum machines, guitar, melodica, synthesizers, clarinet, dulcimer, samplers, harmonium, harmonicas, and piano. Perhaps not innovative, but inventive and creative most definitely, how can you not love an experimental band with a toy guitar? To me, the most alluring part of this LP is an underlying sweetness despite the melancholy overtones in all of their tracks. There is a level of simplicity buried deep beneath their samples and clarinet and camera film pot full of brown rice that conveys a longing for and acknowledgement of beauty, despite whatever pain the song is outwardly expressing. The lyrics dance on the border of bad whiny indie music yet with a touch of hope thrown into the equation that makes all the difference in the way the music is heard and how the duos message comes across. Comprised of Jonny Pilcher and Tom Betts, Weevil joined together in South London in the summer of 1999, combining the sounds of Jonnies former Pavement-inspired group and Toms electronic noodlings as Vendor Refill. They consider themselves musical pioneers, but I would have to agree that more important than creating a new sound, Weevils tantamount power as a group rests in their deft grasp of turning that personal feeling into something exponentially universal.
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