Lo-fi Alt/Pop Band Weston Estate Release “Saturday Nights” With Official Music Video
LO-FI ALT / POP FIVESOME WESTON ESTATE RELEASE
VIA ARISTA RECORDS
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(October 23rd, 2020 – New York, NY) — The best things in life usually take shape by accident; and Weston Estate is no exception. Comprised of five best friends, the lo-fi alt/pop band came together in 2017, after a run-of-the-mill Playstation game morphed into an unforgettable freestyle.
Now, Weston Estate – named in jest for an affluent neighborhood adjacent to their hometown of Cary, North Carolina – finds themselves with an enthusiastic grassroots fanbase, over 12 million accumulated streams, and a major label deal with Arista Records/Sony Music Entertainment. Today, the band released their new single “Saturday Nights” with an accompanying music video.
Watch HERE.
Borderline hypnotic with a heavy bassline, lowkey hip-hop beat, mumble-sing vocal, and lyrics tinged in adolescent puppy love, the sonic landscape is so dreamy it makes missing your girl on a Saturday night sound cool. “This song is based on an idea that we held onto for a year,” shares the band. “We wanted the song to embody the growing pains of adolescence at a time when everyone else seems to have everything figured out. We recorded the original demo in a bedroom, but it really came to life during our first real studio session. That’s why we’re so excited to finally put this song out; it feels like it has grown and evolved alongside us as a band.” Weston Estate is the brainchild of Srikar Nanduri (guitar), Manas Panchavati (vocals), Tanmay Joshi (vocals), Abhi Manhass (production, bass), and Marco Luka (vocals), all college students who have known each other since they were 14 years old. The fun-loving fivesome quickly became hometown heroes after a rowdy live debut in 2018. “We were playing sad songs and there was a mosh pit,” remembers Nanduri.
“We somehow got a mosh pit out of high-schoolers at a charity event.” As the group continued to make music, their eclectic range of personalities and individual taste informed the experimental nature of their collective sound. Pulling inspiration from artists like Daniel Caesar, Young Thug, and Frank Ocean and tapping into their own cultural influences (all are of Indian descent with the exception of Marco who is first generation Cuban-American), Weston Estate is carving out a new space entirely their own. With the release of “Saturday Nights,” the band showcases their talent for melding together cavernous harmonies and tag team lead vocals. The song creates a pool of sound so deep and refreshing it begs for its listener to dive in head-first.
“Saturday Nights” is Weston Estate’s follow-up to their previous single, “Close the Door,” which Elevator described as a “sunny ode to bittersweet heartbreak” and “an upbeat ode to moving on.” “We are rather smart boys…intelligent lads,” the band jokes. “Our band philosophy is optimistic nihilism. Straight-edged middle-aged women getting lit to our music is our aesthetic.” If that doesn’t get you to push play, we don’t know what will.
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