Album Review – Our Brilliant Weekend by The Caraway (2024) (Blue Very Label)

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Nearly seventeen years after their impeccable eponymous debut album tickled every twee-button imaginable, Osamu Shimada’s (Swinging Popsicle) The Caraway project is finally back with a sophomore album, Our Brilliant Weekend, that simply oozes the best of 90s twee and guitar-pop.
As such, the jangly neo-acoustic, typically Japanese, The Laundries-style guitar-pop aesthetic of Sunday Morning Biking, Fall in Love, and Last Night are augmented by the smooth twee-pop stylistics that are so reminiscent of Caffe Reggio era Holiday and accordingly deserve as much love as possible from twee-pop aficionados.
Never really dipping a toe out of beautifully twee-inflected waters, the title track and Beautiful Girl slide through beautifully clear yacht rock waters, whereas the simply superlative Venus in Motion and All Up To You caress almost mid-tempo climes in catchy, Cub-style jangly indie-pop earworms.
Guitar perfection is definitely worth waiting for.

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