If The Wire had been about running record labels, Mexican Summer would be hustling the prime street corner real estate just like Bodie and co. Away from analogies about current obsessions and back to reality they’re rounding off a brilliant year of killer releases with the dark-hearted debut from Weekend. There’s a paralysing angst which looms large over the first few minutes of ‘Youth Haunts’ before its menacing drum-beat cuts loose and explodes into a crazed, bruised, hell-bent apocalypse. What a way to go out. Have a listen to the flipside we posted previously and Order your copy of the 10” where both tracks live.

Weekend – Youth Haunts

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