WEAK: weak

weak

weak

© 2003 rompu records

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"Weak" has been called "the freshest combination of pop brilliance, ancient electronica and murderous balladry to come along since The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs". Michael Henningsen, Alibi Magazine [1]

"The music that [Weak has] made here makes me less than hesitant to throw out the term 'brilliant.'"
Joseph Kyle, MundaneSounds.com [2]

"The best thing I've heard in ages."
Sara Lee, B52s / Gang of Four / League of Gentlemen / Indigo Girls / etc.

"Some of the best music I've ever heard."
Brian Geltner aka Dr. Snitch

"Wow."
Mark McKenna, Allaire Studios

"wow. i'm nearly speechless: what a beautiful, gorgeous, substantial piece this 'weak' recording is....."
david torn aka splattercell

"Nice album, cheerfully, psychedelically, bleak -- your voice has been insinuating , all week long, from my speakers, that "I might be missing something", and generally filling me full of doubt. Too right, mate, too right! "
Bill Bruford, Earthworks / Yes / King Crimson

"A very creative album...also very original and that's REALLY unusual these days."
Mike Garson, David Bowie Band

"This music should be heard. It's beautiful."
Pat Irwin, composer / B52s

"This is a very cool CD."
Seth Rogovoy, WAMC FM Cultural Czar/The Berkshire Eagle/The Rogovoy Report

"Gentle, sweet, vicious, and sad."
Claudia Rowe, New York Times (unpublished comment)

"Intricate, effortless, demented, delicate, heart wrenching, reminiscent, resonant, old as hell, brand new. These are some of the first words to come to mind. I loved it."
Simone Felice, the big empty

"Weak is a tiptoe through a musical funhouse."
Sharon Nichols, Chronogram Magazine [4]

"Weak is a haunting trip through a musical twilight zone."
Owen Swenson, The Turning Mill

"Weak deserves a wide audience, and his songwriting is so unique that it could even transcend major-label support."
Joseph Taylor, SoundStage! Magazine [3]

"Particularly impressive is the sonic integration of electro-acoustic instrumentation with the harmony."
Stanley Silverman, composer

"These are mood pieces with the compositional depth of jazz ballads laced with refreshingly strange treatments."
John Savlove, Savelove Music

"Weak the CD: stretches the possibilities of what is achievable for both the performer and the and listener."
Todd Vos aka Tako

"I just wanted to drop a line and say thanks for the WEAK cd. I think its great stuff. As a musician/composer myself I really appreciate the simplicity and the non-typical approach that this music is embracing."
Todd Legault, Intralink Film

"Imagine Radiohead with more haunting and exquisitely tasteful electronic textures than jangly guitar, an even more naked and honest vocal approach... well, just go listen for yourself and buy the CD."
Doug Wyatt, Sonosphere.com

"The music is sublime."
Meg Cottam

"This is the best thing I've found on Cornerband.com. It's like the exact opposite of all the corporate crap chocking the radio nowadays. I can't wait to get this cd."
Dan M. Wheeler

"Honest and sharp words. Some reality there. Well done...it seems effortless. I like the record very much."
Armen Ra

"The cd is awesome."
Brian Taylor



CONTACT:
ANTONY WIDOFF
ROMPU RECORDS
(518) 671-6135
weak@rompu.com
609 Warren St. Hudson NY 12534




Full Text of Reviews:
[1] Alibi Magazine 5/8/03: http://www.alibi.com/alibi/2003-05-08/music_section.html#primecuts
[2] MundaneSounds.com 5/03: http://www.mundanesounds.com/reviews/w/weak-weak.html
[3] SoundStage! Magazine 7/03: http://www.soundstage.com/music/reviews/rev519.htm
[4] Chronogram Magazine 6/03: http://chronogram.com/backIssues/2003/603/backbone/earwhacks/index.html

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  • A flower blooming in the middle of an asphalt parking lot
    author: Paul MacFarlane (Nashid)

    Truly beautiful. Insidious, yet optimistically sweet. Lush. Emotional. Surprising. Comforting. Challenging. Colorful. Worth repeated listenings, yet forever fresh. Thank you for dreaming this up, writing, recording and publishing it.

  • Amazing. The music invites you in then encircles you with erie emotion.
    author: Suzanne Baker Haines

    Weaks music is like erie pulsing vines entering your emotional soul, wrapped in a haunting embrace. Nice work!

  • Groove driven and silky, dreamy vocals
    author: Mark Heyert

    I didn't know what to expect, but after listening to this CD I think Weak has got it going on. The restrained grooves are just the tip as each layer is listened to there is so much more. I love Weak and this album

  • Widoff plays with great energy and excitement, The disk is super!
    author: David Segal

    Widoff plays with great energy, verve and excitement, The disk is super and I look forward to more and more great music coming from him!

  • For once, I'm nearly speechless.
    author: Michael Henningsen / Alibi Magazine

    Weak is Antony Widoff, a self-styled hermit who makes a variety of delightfully odd, demented and outrageously beautiful music in a room somewhere in upstate New York. Whatever this music will one day be called, it's the freshest combination of pop brilliance, ancient electronica and murderous balladry to come along since The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs. This one was beamed back from the future for your immense pleasure.

  • "Weak" is far from the correct adjective to describe Weak's music.
    author: Joseph Kyle / mundanesounds.com

    Antony Widoff is the one man mystery machine behind the music, and the music that he's made here makes me less than hesitant to throw out the term "brilliant." I swear that every time I listened to Weak, I heard something different, I heard the music in a different way--and it often made me throw out what I'd just thought was correct. When I first heard the spider-sly opener "Anxiety," I instantly thought, "this guy is a modern day Syd Barrett," and that's what I heard. A twisted, kind of dark and sad folkie making challenging music. The next time I listened to Weak, the first thing I thought was, "why the heck did I think this guy sounds like Syd Barrett? He doesn't sound a thing like him. This sounds just like David Bowie." Of course, when I came back to Weak, I wondered where the Bowie comparison came from, because they sounded SOO MUCH MORE like someone else. That list of someone else, to kind of shorten the story, grew to include the following: Sparklehorse, Radiohead, Scott Walker, Grandaddy, Jeff Buckley, Coldplay, and that was just this afternoon! Regardless of my inability to capture the genius of Weak, the sound of Weak can easily be drawn from that mighty behemoth of a paragraph. It's a slow, dark, foggy, cold and lonely musical landscape that is tempered with soft, gorgeous, fragile singing and a hint of desperation to boot. ...there are other brilliant numbers like "Alice Said," "Regrets," and the utterly lovely, brilliant, wonderful (insert other highly praising adjectives) cover of the Beatles' "Here, There, and Everywhere,"

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