Smith Westerns // Weekend II

Further to our post declaring Smith Western's new single Weekend as the boys' finest, shiniest pop achievement to date, they've further whetted our excitement for the new album with a quite brilliant video. A typical Western weekend apparently includes video arcades, Claire's Accessories, cheese-slathered nachos and tree felling. I know what I'll be doing come Saturday.

Smith Westerns // Weekend

Perhaps it's the influence of a US tour in support of London's own Florence that explains the sense of unveiling that accompanies the new single from Smith Westerns. Their 2009 debut, full of carefree melody and distracted mumblings, was a joy of fuzzy lo-fi but, while the hazy reverb remains, the boys have stepped up to the foreground and into outstanding pop clarity.

The new album 'Dye It Blonde' will follow on Fat Possum in the new year and, if Weekend is anything to go by, 2011 is off to a flyer. See 'em at the Windmill or Luminaire before the month is out.

Smith Westerns - Weekend by forcefieldpr