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"You said you liked guitars, went crazy for pop music, got your kicks from dancing.....and You Always Loved Violence"

At the end of last year, The Blanche Hudson Weekend released a compilation CD entitled Reverence, Severance And Spite. It featured all the single tracks up to that time, plus a bunch of brand new and exclusive recordings. That wasn't supposed to be their debut album, however... because this is their debut album.

You Always Loved Violence takes the fuzzed up, lo-fi pop of The Blanche Hudson Weekend and pushes it that little bit further. Never a band wishing to simply repeat themselves, this album will still be very much recognisable to anyone familiar with what The Blanche Hudson Weekend have come up with so far, but given the freedom to stretch out and experiment over a full long player, the band have certainly grabbed the opportunity to do so.

People expecting the usual heavily fuzzed up guitars shredding the eardrums may be surprised. They're still present (of course) but they're now poppier sounding. Caroline McChrystal's vocals have never been better. Instead of burying the tracks in layers of noise, the songs now shine out. Familiar live favourites like Union Square Blackout and The Last Ride have been re-recorded, brand new tracks such as The Bitterest Clash, Coming Home and No Contest are perfect examples of the kind of pop that The Blanche Hudson Weekend serve up so well. River's Edge and Getting Faster are raw, pounding slabs of sonic fury. But there's also a darkness hanging over some of the album. Screen Test brings to mind the intimacy and stark beauty of Chelsea Girl era Nico, Then You Tell Me is like one of the more melancholy tracks from the 13th Floor Elevators Easter Everywhere, and One Last Kiss is lyrically the most personal and open the band have ever been. It's all powerful stuff. The album closes on a disturbing and experimental note with Blue Exit Down, where metallic objects clatter against one another and the ghosts of one of The Blanche Hudson Weekend's previous recordings, So Sick, are well and truly resurrected.

Forget trying to label this band. OK, at their most basic they're "pop", but just like all the very best bands, they're constantly wanting to take things forward, try out different sounds, keep people guessing as to what is coming next. On You Always Loved Violence, consider all these things well and truly achieved.

2012 may have seemed a relatively quiet year for The Blanche Hudson Weekend, with just 2 new singles released on Odd Box Records (the Just Like Susan George b/w To Be That Way Again 7" and the Deep Thrust EP) but they've actually been very busy writing, and then recording, this epic 15 tracker which is set for release in April 2013.

Entitled How Many Times Have You Let Me Die? - it's the... [more]

In early 2013, Odd Box Records are set to unleash the latest album from The Blanche Hudson Weekend. Ahead of this, however, is the brand new (and VERY limited edition) Deep Thrust EP. This CD single is housed in a colour card sleeve, and features 3 tracks. Consume Me is taken from the forthcoming album, How Many Times Have You Let Me Die?, and the other 2 recordings, Divided and Some Kind Of Freedom,... [more]

Available (in stock) in a few weeks from now - this is the brand new 7" slab of black wax from The Blanche Hudson Weekend. Released on the wonderful Odd Box Records, and featuring 2 tracks - (Just Like) Susan George and To Be That Way Again, all wrapped up in a lovely full colour sleeve imprinted with the striking image of Susan George herself.

After the more stripped back and, some might... [more]

Here we have a great little collectors item. Usually this 7" comes as part of the Odd Box Records Singles Club, and sits nicely alongside a 7" featuring The Give It Ups / Santa Monica Swim And Dive Club, and another 7" featuring One Fathom Down / The Humms. All wrapped up in a cloth bag with stickers and badges.

However, a few copies of The Blanche Hudson Weekend / Horowitz... [more]

"As tempting as a cup cake, but as tough as a 75 cent steak. Essential 60's influenced girl garage noise pop"

The Blanche Hudson Weekend, still less than 1 year old and with only 3 single releases so far, have decided to compile all the tracks from those aforementioned 7" plastic platters onto one CD, alongside a handful of brand new recordings and a couple of leftovers... [more]

The 3rd 7" EP release from The Blanche Hudson Weekend, and featuring 3 brand new tracks. Let Me Go could be a contender for the poppiest thing the band have recorded so far. Heavily influenced by 1960s girl garage groups, this one is full to bursting with pop hooks, jangling guitars and just the right amount of fuzziness... all clocking in at under 2 and a half minutes aswell. In stark (and... [more]

Here we go—the 2nd 7" release from The Blanche Hudson Weekend. Featuring 3 brand new tracks which finds the band in slightly more sinister sounding mode this time around. "Grip Of Fear" is a chugging pop nugget, melodic and noisy in roughly equal parts. "Sharks" and "Only Snow" reveal a much darker element to the band's sound, with a heavy Velvet Underground... [more]

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The Blanche Hudson Weekend is here. Featuring Caroline and Darren (ex-The Manhattan Love Suicides) along with a bunch of other Weekenders, and bringing to you all kinds of noise, fuzz, melody, dissonance, rawness, killer tunes and buzzsaw pop. Take a bit of 1960s girl group sounds, mix with Girls... [more]