Album Review: Weston Super Maim - See You Tomorrow Baby
Reviewed by Daniel Phipps
Let's get started with a bit of a confession, I picked See You Tomorrow Baby to review purely because I thought the name Weston Super Maim was fantastic, and I really hope the play on words is intentional and the band is named after arguably the second best seaside destination in the UK, (we all know Skegness is number one). So I really came into this with no actual knowledge of what they were going to bring to the table on this record but let's find out.
So this was quite exciting in a way, I really had no idea what to expect from when I hit the play button on See You Tomorrow Baby as mentioned in the opening as wanted to check this purely based on the band name itself. What Weston Super Maim does is to put it simply jaw dropping as they surf a variety of sounds and influences and fuse together a crazy album of crushing riffs, harsh intense vocals and some absolute batshit mental time signatures among a whole heap of other sounds and atmospheres both at the forefront and more in a background setting.
I won't lie it can be a challenge to really figure out the best way to describe what Weston Super Maim do sound wise but that's not a negative by any means. The record takes no prisoners as it opens with a bolt of furious creativity and it continues through its eight stunning tracks. See You Tomorrow Baby doesn't start at zero, it goes from 60-100 and from that point as they twist and turn through each track which combine the energy and intensity of the likes of The Dillinger Escape plan with the crushing precision of Meshuggah, and that is just scratching the surface of what comes across with the records musical vision.
This is an absolute whirlwind of a record which really is cool and absolutely crazy. It has huge riffs and absolutely crushing vocals and it really has a great strong progression throughout its run length. The best part is that the more you listen and the more you pay attention you keep hearing new parts deeper within the records foundation, and finally the biggest point in the above, just two musicians created this, and that is something else in my book.
