The Weakness – Lovers and Liars

The Weakness just released their debut album on June 1st, so it would seem appropriate to feature them on the site right about now.

The EP, entitled Lovers and Liars (I find that those two seemed to be one and the same in the more unfortunate cases), was released independently; and the band is managed by Static Management.

The band’s bio reads like this:

It is commonly acknowledged that for something to live, something else has to die. If one were to venture forth in search of an example, one must look no further than where you find yourself now. From the ashes of a band once called October Nites has risen a powerful Pop-Rock Phoenix known as The Weakness.

So, gentle reader, I humbly implore you to hesitate no longer and… give it up for The Weakness.

The first track on the album, ‘Mean to Me’, will reach out and grab you if you are a fan of the pop-rock genre (it’s embedded below). I’m thinking that the chorus of the second track, ‘Blackout’, (‘your lips your touch/so contagious/’til I blackout with my friends/blackout with my friends once again’) refers to people who are infatuated with their significant other…until they get some alcohol in their system. Then all bets are off.

The second half of Lovers and Liars is more rock-oriented than the first, and I couldn’t figure out who they reminded me of until I heard ‘Time Bomb.’ That track definitely reminded me of a song that Halifax would do. They both fall into some kind of pop-punk/pop-rock/rock hybrid.

The last track on the album, ‘Tied Down’, definitely had a Valencia-feel to it. For those of you who haven’t heard them, A) get on that, right after you B) read this Valencia We All Need a Reason to Believe Review.

For more information on The Weakness, visit The Weakness MySpace Page.

Here is a (poppier) example of what you will find on Lovers and Liars: