The Weekend — Beatbox My Heartbeat

Andrea Wasse is a tomboy in stilettos and Max Factor. On Beatbox My Heartbeat, the peppy new album from London, ON-based new wave faves The Weekend, she sings about broken hearts and stupid boys as if she were the gum-chewing, vodka cooler-drinking, Duran Duran-worshipping second cousin of The Donnas’ Brett Anderson. Retro-kitsch is fast approaching its sell-by date, but The Weekend’s oh-so-‘80s power-pop glimmers with charm and moxie. "Into The Morning" is The Muffs after an all-night Slurpee guzzling contest-cum-Heartbeat City listening party and "NYLA," where Wasse confesses she’d rather tongue-wrestle Brian Wilson than smooch a shaggy Ramone wannabe, is as crunchy as a jawbreaker. It all tends to blur together, but it’s a smart, engaging, hook-filled blur just the same. 

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