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Artist......: Frog Eyes
Album.......: The Open Up
Label.......: Paper Bag Records
Genre.......: Indie
Catnr.......: PAPER159CD
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2025-03-17
Str.date....: 2025-03-07
Quality.....: 807 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://frogeyes.bandcamp.com
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1. Television, a Ghost in My Head 3:17
2. E-E-Y-O-R-E (That's Me!) 2:40
3. I Walk Out of There (Ambulance Song) 2:46
4. Put a Little Light on the Wretch That Is Me 2:55
5. I'm a Little at a Loss 2:32
6. I See the Same Things 5:54
7. Adam Is My Brother's Friend 4:22
8. Chin Up 5:10
9. Trash Crab 6:41
10. The Open Up Dream on a Lost Receipt 4:55
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,: Frog Eyes is back with their tenth full length album The Open :,
: Up. We've pressed a limited quantity of Blue Mix "Eco Wax" :
:' vinyls - made with 100% recycled vinyl wax. And if you don't ':
,: already have the 2022 album The Bees on Orchid coloured vinyl, :,
: order the vinyl bundle for a discounted price! :
:' ':
,: Cult-rock band Frog Eyes announce their second album since :,
: reforming in 2021, and their tenth record in a consistently :
:' bewildering and inspired catalogue. Formed at the turn of the ':
,: century, brushing shoulders with fellow travellers/beloved :,
: songwriters and musicians, beloved but never in the dead :
:' epicentre of a scene or a marketable, commodified era, this ':
,: record bursts with a joyful fealty to songs, to albums, to :,
: playing the song you want to hear with the people you want to :
:' play with in a space that lifts it all up. ':
,: :,
: The Open Up, was tracked to tape by ace-engineer John Raham :
:' (Frazey Ford, Destroyer), recorded off-the-floor, with ':
,: subsequent vocal overdubs and electric guitar and grand piano :,
: flourishes. Huffy-puffy rock and roll, open-ended mid-tempo :
:' dreaminess, sad and soft love songs: it s an emotional and ':
,: spatial journey, and meant to be experienced as an album. :,
: Electric guitar, piano-like synthesizer, frantic and frenetic :
:' drums and melodic bass fill up the corners and create a ':
,: foundational support for the words, spit-sung into a special :,
: German tube microphone and shuttled out to a Studer tape machine :
:' to create the syllabic echoes, and the sounds as they converge ':
,: in the centre of your speakers make us think of 1995 emo, at :,
: times, in its chord structures, a remnant/echo of a youth :
:' playing in that specific genre, post-punk in its wired up ':
,: tautness and Fall-like square edges, weird blues, baby-bad-boy :,
: goth rock, and then, in its final third, a spacious rise-up that :
:' revels in more open modalities. ':
,: :,
: Underneath, (as in an underground river), the entire project, :
:' starting in 2001 and coming up on a 25th silver jubilee, is a ':
,: flowing devotion to the idea of the album, the idea that a :,
: collection of songs could work together to create a body of :
:' meaning beyond each individual tune; absent are any overarching ':
,: themes or conceits, present is a flood of pondering, of :,
: noticing, of trying to work it out, the sound of two years of :
:' blinking. Personnel are: Ryan Beattie, bass (and singing); ':
,: Shyla Seller, Keys; Melanie Campbell, Drums; Carey Mercer, :,
: Guitar (and singing). :
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