hypersongs

The Weight

The second album, with the lead single "Heaven, Listen".
Weval, 2019

Bandcamp and PopMatters date it March 1, 2019, and the Line of Best Fit, XLR8R and Magnetic March 8. The catalog numbers are Kompakt 396 for the double LP and Kompakt CD 151. The engineer David Wrench, known for work with Frank Ocean and the xx, is tied by the label to the title track. The duo recorded their own samples and voices and almost every instrument out of the box, using the most cheap quirky toy synths you can imagine, and said everything felt spontaneous, new and exciting; finding the right order perhaps took the most effort. PopMatters's Rod Waterman gave it 8 out of 10, calling it fully accessible and deceptively easy to listen to, and the Line of Best Fit's Evan Lilly gave it 8.5.

Track listing

  1. The Weight4:45
  2. Roll Together3:55
  3. Are You Even Real5:12
  4. False State of Mind4:08
  5. Someday5:45
  6. Heaven, Listen3:21
  7. Couldn't Do It Better2:53
  8. Same Little Thing4:22
  9. Silence on the Wall4:53
  10. Look Around5:34
  11. Doesn't Do Anything4:16
  12. Heartbreak Television5:28
  13. Who's Running Who3:53

More from Weval

Weval (2016), Remember (2023), CHOROPHOBIA (2025)

Sources

  1. The Weight, Weval
  2. Weval: The Weight, PopMatters (2019-03-07)
  3. Weval: The Weight, The Line of Best Fit (2019-03-08)