The Daily Spin II

Corella | Once Upon A Weekend

Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.

As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.

Album: Once Upon A Weekend (2024)

Artist: Corella

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I keep picking summery records and then surprising myself when they are, in fact, summery.

At least the weather was fitting for it today up here - sixty-some degrees, sunny. Just delightful, and made better by Corella’s soundtrack. For a group I’d never heard of today - I quite literally stabbed a random track from my daylist, Spotify’s generated playlist for a specific time frame that usually has fun or horrifying names like bouncy cream 70s squeeze or dreamy jangle thursday night, and ran with that album. It’s a fun way to find new music I’d otherwise never come across.

Once Upon A Weekend is great for that - driving rock that’s supported and buoyed by strong choruses, the sort of performance that goes down a checklist and hits all the big points.

Therein, of course, lies the flaw with the record - it’s a stereotype played out so thoroughly that it runs a little stale after time - yes, of course, how daring, a song about heartbreak and homesickness through the lens of fading adolescence. Daring today, aren’t we.

Corella are far from the first band to run into this pitfall, and they certainly won’t be the last, but it does somewhat dim the shine of what’s otherwise a pretty enjoyable little album. Worth a spin, especially when the sun hits just right coming home from work, like a Friday beer to the hand.

Rating: 7/10

Best Tracks: Laidback

Worst Tracks: Hometown