Born from the warmth and haze of the Tucson desert, Weekend Lovers are bringing the monsoon again. The three-piece dream-pop outfit, led by bassist, vocalist, and songwriter Marta DeLeon, channels the depth of lengthy, dry summers and the aid of uncommon rain into music that’s lush, cinematic, and emotionally uncooked.
DeLeon’s musical roots stretch from the indie scenes of Seattle to the art-pop enclaves of Brooklyn, and that cross-country lineage bleeds into the band’s sound: infectious hooks meet gut-punch lyricism and shimmering post-rock textures, all dusted with the glitter of ’80s pop and new wave nostalgia. The consequence feels each model new and eerily acquainted, like rediscovering a track you already liked.
Their new album, In Your Goals, marks a full-circle return, a mirrored image on post-pandemic life, inventive renewal, and the surreal act of chasing that means in an unsure world. “It’s about getting again on the merry-go-round,” DeLeon explains, “writing once more, enjoying dwell once more, and discovering the dream in all of it.”
We had the prospect to take a seat down with the fellows to be taught all concerning the report, the story round it and rather more right here at Music Crowns!
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Congrats in your new album ‘In Your Goals’! How does it really feel to have it out on the planet?
Wow it feels daunting however liberating as effectively. The information been accomplished and we labored on it on and off the final two years at Saint Cecilia in our hometown of Tucson. It’s mainly a lot of the songs we wrote collectively since we began enjoying once more, in late 2021. Put up pandemic.
Can you’re taking us again to Tucson and describe the second Weekend Lovers actually grew to become a band?
I (Marta l) began this undertaking transferring again to Tucson the place I grew up. I positively felt extra space and time to collaborate with Rick and Dane this time round. Which to me personally, is how I all the time operated in bands since I began enjoying rock n roll again in my Seattle and Brooklyn days. The sum of the elements makes the entire undertaking in my thoughts. I get pleasure from that course of additionally. In any other case I get in my head or caught or shelve little concepts with out growing them.
“Rad Crimson” channels quite a lot of 80s and 90s different vitality. What drew you to that sound for this monitor particularly?
Oh for sure, I instantly felt the pull of submit rock Sonic Youth vibe meets Siouxie and Banshees on Rad Crimson. It was born out of the opening delayed riffs of guitarist Dane Velasquez’s concept, then we performed it a pair instances as a band. He recorded the follow then we pieced the construction collectively a number of extra instances. I got here up with the melody as we went. I hear it in my head whereas enjoying bass.
“Greasy Diamond” is rebellious and political, whereas “Not Chill” displays generational trauma—how do you determine what private or societal themes to sort out in a track?
Nonetheless within the second of the music or instrumentation coming collectively. When i sing and earlier than the lyrics are extra fixated, I really feel a temper that I’m starting to embrace after which label it mentally. I’m predicting what the topic can be additionally. Sort of like trying on the sky and predicting the climate that day. Enjoying it dwell then recording it you are feeling that catharsis. I additionally am interested in placing macro and micro meanings in there lyrically. For instance, in “Greasy Diamond” the verses are foreseeing what that powers that be are about to steal from us as folks. However the choruses are about ones private grief. These two themes are comparable and run parallel to me.
What’s your favorite track on the report at present?
Ah for me Marta I really feel “Not Chill” as a result of its finish product was unpredictable. I liked it. The choruses are like huge waves of power partitions coming at you however maintain the emotion of declaration. I had a tough time ending the lyrics for recording as a result of they felt easy and repetitive however fortunately the complicated confessional emotion got here by. However I in all probability be upset in myself if it hadn’t. Lesson realized. Ha.
What impressed you to cowl Sade’s “Sweetest Taboo,” and the way did you strategy making it really feel like a Weekend Lovers track?
I’m a fan and respect her span of affection songs in numerous feelings. It’s intimidating, however I felt I had a small key of entry since I sing pretty comfortably in her vary. I had sketched 20 seconds of the verse to Dane simply bass and vocals in a barely completely different key – that made it sound extra slanted or mournful. The remainder was attractive, swampy, sultry like our brief monsoons right here within the desert in late summer time. However I can’t take the credit score, that was all Rick and Dane increasing that sound which is our sound sure for that cowl. We didn’t discuss it an excessive amount of in prep and it was recorded pretty rapidly. I like doing covers, so long as we make them our personal.
If you happen to may take Weekend Lovers anyplace on the planet for a dream tour, the place would it not be and why?
Europe appears enjoyable and straightforward for touring. Although I all the time wished to cross nation tour within the U.S. – I’d say opening for Deep Sea Diver or Warpaint! We’re fortunate now we have opened for a lot of nice touring bands right here simply in Tucson too.
And at last, what’s subsequent for the band creatively, any new sounds, collaborations, or experiments on the horizon?
I don’t know. I’m all the time writing. I attempt to be easy, however possibly in a differnt approach like constructing on one half for the entire track. I really feel I’ve so much to be taught nonetheless with writing and different areas which is humbling. Possibly a music video for The Sweetest Taboo to unravel the report additional extra to our viewers.
