Sex Week is a duo made up of Richard Orofino and Pearl Amanda Dickson, whose partnership formed over a fondness for one another's music taste. Sex Week, have been expertly walking the tightrope between serious and silly since their unplanned inception. A playlist made by Dickson for her friend Allison, Orofino’s roommate, led to a partnership formed by mutual fondness of one another’s taste. A taste that would lead the two to begin messing around with writing and producing music, and eventually releasing their first self-titled EP in 2024, Sex Week.

On August 1st, Sex Week expanded their discography with Upper Mezzanine, a 5-track EP released via Grand Jury Music. The project is a beautiful blend of noise, with the duo managing to tap into a multitude of different sounds, creating something that is not quite shoegaze, pop, rock, folk, or ‘indie sleaze’. Upper Mezzanine sit pleasantly in the middle of it all, like the nucleus of all things music. In ways, I would also call the project an ugly duckling, as it’s ‘non-traditional’ approach to music may strike a sour chord with listeners who do not have previous knowledge of the band and what they create.

Sex Week are the epitome of a double-entendre. They possess depth without weight, and vulnerability with room to stay lighthearted. As pop music lovers, they embrace their fondness for the genre by disguising pop-structured songs with layered elements of folk, experimental, and alternative rock to create a digestible yet distorted sonic portfolio. Upper Mezzanine is a continuation of the world Sex Week is building. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.