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Eye – The Other Sees – Backseat Mafia
Eye, the new band from Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard (MWWB) singer-songwriter/musician Jessica Ball, recently announced the arrival of their eagerly awaited debut album, ‘Dark Light’ set for release on 26th April via New Heavy Sounds (Shooting Daggers, MWWB, Blacklab). They have now shared the second single from the album titled ‘The Other Sees’ which follows on from the first single ‘In your Night‘ ‘Dark Light’ is an intensely atmospheric fusion of emotionally charged songcraft and inspired sonic energy. The clue is in the album’s paradoxical title. Chilling and even bleak melodies with arrangements daringly and deliberately stripped down and minimal. Revealing a kinship with sonic bed-fellows Mazzy Star, Chelsea Wolfe or…
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(strangely)(emotional) sees Dave Graney and Clare Moore paint a vivid portrait of life on a whimsical canvas. – Backseat Mafia
Surely the coolest couple in the antipodean music scene, Dave Graney and Clare Moore have today released their new album ‘(strangely)(emotional)’ and it is a journey into the magnificently astute and erudite world of Graney’s fervent imagination. And yet this world is firmly grounded in reality as song titles such as ‘I’m Already Missing The Lockdown’ and ‘Covid’ suggest. Graney has an ability to identify the minutia of everyday life, put it under a microscope and dissect it to its constituent ingredients, and then reassemble in his imagery. And what does the unusual title signify? It is a reflection of the zeitgeist, according to Graney: (strangely)(emotional) is so carefully titled because that’s…
