Strange Weekend

Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
Critic Score
Based on 22 reviews
2012 Ratings: #354 / 1118
User Score
Based on 37 ratings
Liked by 3 people
January 24, 2012 / Release Date
LP / Format
Dream Pop / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
NME

‘Strange Weekend’’s gauzy dream-pop is almost incapable of provoking anything but love.

80
Consequence of Sound

There’s nothing withering about this kind of music; it has an enormity and grace and a sense of nostalgia and experimentation.

80
Under the Radar

Strange Weekend is ultimately a pop album—a flight of lo-fi fancy anchored by some very real (and very catchy) pop hooks.

79
Beats Per Minute

The juxtaposition of more melodic pop tracks and slow-burning heart-string pluckers is truly a winning formula in this instance

75
A.V. Club

The album’s broad explorations of moods and atmospheres show a touch of personal handicraft behind the painstaking preparation.

75
The 405

Strange Weekend is a spiky little gem amongst the soft-edged faux pearls of their dream pop peers.

74
Pitchfork

Many of the melodies feel familiar but can't easily be precisely placed, which not only makes them good earworm candidates but also enhances the album's dreamlike, half-remembered feel.

70
Drowned in Sound

Porcelain Raft is a perfectly charming set of endearingly sweet lo-fi dream-pop, the sort where the emotional signposts are obvious even if the specific words written on them are not.

70
PopMatters

Remiddi’s vast and varied musical experience infuse his songs with a sense of confidence and craftsmanship that is often lacking in the work of his younger and less experienced peers.

70
musicOMH

Porcelain Raft does its own thing, reworking standard bedroom-pop ingredients into something compelling.

60
No Ripcord

All the feeling that Porcelain Raft wants to convey is done through the layered production and full sound that, unfortunately, has little change from song to song.

DrakeBonna
75

Favourite Tracks:

Drifting In and Out
Unless You Speak From Your Heart
The End Of Silence

usedtobe
80

Mauro Remiddi's ghostly falsetto drenched over hypnotic, sensual crescendo of electronic noise makes the trip so worth it.

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Track List

  1. Drifting In and Out 
  2. Shapeless & Gone 
  3. Is It Too Deep For You? 
  4. Put Me To Sleep 
  5. Backwords 
  6. Unless You Speak From Your Heart 
  7. The End Of Silence 
  8. If You Have A Wish 
  9. Picture 
  10. The Way In
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Added on: December 30, 2011