Well I've been excited about this ever since the band generously donated a song to the sampler I gave out at the Song, by Toad Records launch party. That song was Blanket, and it's gorgeous, and so is this. I'm becoming an increasing fan of the mini-album, EP, whatever you want to call it. Three to eight songs seems the ideal length for something to hang together really nicely, without any filler or any temptation for the listener's attention to wander three-quarters of the way through. Funnily enough, if you did that here, you'd miss all [...]
If you want to criticise Eagleowl it is relatively easy to do so - in fact it just requires one word: dirge. When I first saw them the flirted relatively frequently with this particular failing, although I don't really think they ever quite succumbed to it. Over the last year or so I think I can safely say that pretty much every performance has been a steady improvement on the last. Each time the morose strings seemed more frequently punctuated with the lush harmonies, and each time the mood of the set fluctuated and flickered just that [...]
Well, we'll be back by the end of this week, back into a maelstrom of gigs. What the fuck am I going to do on Saturday? Go to see Johnny Flynn at Cabaret Voltaire? Sparrow & the Workshop at the Liquid Room? Or Eagleowl at the Scottish Scullery. I am going to be spread thinner than the veneer of desperately forced joy on a vegetarian's malnourished visage. I think I may even be doing a show for Fresh Air Radio that day, but I have no idea what about, as yet. So, what's happening on the busiest week of [...]
I bumped into Bart of Eagleowl and Kays Lavelle fame the other day. We were both hanging out in one of the achingly cool vintage vinyl record stores where you tend to find hip cats like us... Okay, it was Tesco's... but anyway, I promised I'd post a reminder about the fabulous Retreat festival Bart's involved in that's coming up this week. The Retreat festival has everything going for it: All the shows take place over a series of nights throughout August, and in one centrally-located venue; St. John's Church hall on the corner [...]
"you know we always honor her birthday." said oj about nicole. yeah. really. cowsarejustfood is one. today. this time last year i dipped my gnarled toes in the water with this testpost. i've been timewasting here for a whole bloody year. so by means of 'celebration' i'm tucking into some red stripe (the indie kids lager beer of choice for some [...]
I didn't just come for the Twilight Sad tonight, because two other highly promising Scottish bands were on the bill as well - Eagleowl and Make Model. As usual, promo company I Fly Spitfires pay attention to the whole lineup, not just the headline act. Eagleowl I know a little about, seeing as a [...]
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