by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
New York’s Weak Signal are having themselves a great year. They kicked 2022 off with a New Year’s Day release of their Best Friend EP and quickly followed it with WAR&WAR, a new full length released back in March. The album is built on shadows and dark hues, pushing the Velvet Underground blueprint with a modern basement sludge resolve. The songs are bleak but echo with their own sense of warmth, like a matter of finding the togetherness in the terror of it all. Since the album’s release the band have toured with Dry Cleaning, played with Chris Brokaw and Howlin’ Rain, and been hand selected for upcoming shows supporting Pavement. It’s all great company for the band’s thoughtful damp and crusted rock, slow-churning with shades of grey grit.
In anticipation for their upcoming hometown show and the Pavement dates, Weak Signal are sharing a video for WAR&WAR’s “Consolation,” one of the record’s more ominous tracks. The track itself, while subdued and shadowy, takes influence in the opposite, derived from a Simone Weil quote, “Love is not consolation. It is light.” Our song is about the next best thing to love, which is good enough sometimes. The video, directed by the band’s own Tran Huynh stars Endless Boogie’s Paul Major places beautifully shot imagery together with a sense of desolation. There’s no one else anywhere to be found and Major appears to be searching for something, though what that is isn’t entirely clear.
Upcoming Shows:
10/04 - Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool
10/05 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Met w/ Pavement
10/06 - Washington, DC @ Warner Theater w/ Pavement