Orlando Weeks - Hop Up

‘There is no more sombre enemy of good art than a pram in the hall.’

So said the legendary English writer (and, significantly, critic) Cyril Connolly. As with all sweeping statements, it’s largely untrue given that parenthood is one of the defining features of humanity, but there is obviously something in it.

Marking ten years since the peak of his former band’s career (The Maccabees’ masterpiece, Given To The Wild), Orlando Weeks returns with his second solo album.

His debut, 2020’s A Quickening, was a necessary change of pace which saw him document the lesser-articulated anxieties and challenges of fatherhood against a soundtrack of sparse, minimal electronica.

It seems things have improved in Weeks’ world, and on the other side of the coin Hop Up offers an alternative perspective on the experience of nurturing a human being.

https://www.live4ever.uk.com/2022/01/review-orlando-weeks-hop-up/