![]() The whiplash left-right panning of “Hello I Am Your Sun”-the opening track, and the most psyched-out song here-feels like it’s jostling you, vigorously, into the right headspace. “I’m With You” introduces itself with Missile Command whirs, and “Return of Witchcraft” is slathered in guitar distortion. ![]() But Ross and Blackwell, ever self-aware, make their upgraded sound part of the joke. It’s common to the point of cliché to have a big-name producer arrive midway through a band’s career, sand down all the lo-fi edges, and replace them with studio gimmickry. Where the group’s previous albums were self-produced, Eggland brings in Dave Fridmann, known for helping the Flaming Lips and Tame Impala scale up their psychedelia to arena levels. Or, in Ross’ own words: “It kind of sounds like a chip shop on fire.” Credit, in part, a change in personnel. Over the years, they’ve gotten steadily heavier, from their early acoustic style to the likes of 2015’s “ Magic Onion,” eventually settling on a sound that evokes psychedelic-punk touchstones like the Buzzcocks and some of the hooky, madcap glee of Charly Bliss. This Is Eggland, the Lovely Eggs’ fifth album, befits its name-it’s as good an introduction as you’ll get to the group and its charmingly skewed perspective on the world. Representative tracks from the duo’s catalog include “ Have You Ever Heard a Digital Accordion,” which features no notable digital accordion content “ Fuck It,” surely the most languid song that has been or ever will be recorded by that title and the raucous, exhaustive bestiary of owns that is “ Don’t Look At Me (I Don’t Like It).” Ever thought about someone’s “sausage-roll thumb” or “washing-line smile”? You have now. It does not store any personal data.Angelica’s Holly Ross went on to form the Lovely Eggs with her husband David Blackwell, formerly of the psychedelic band Three Dimensional Tanx, circa 2006, and over the past decade they’ve taken that sense of humor gonzo to cult acclaim. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". ![]() ![]() The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Pre-order This Is Eggland | | | | Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. It’s certainly an uplifting slice of kitchen sink indie pop thrash and has more hooks than New Order’s former bassist lost in a hall of mirrors whilst attending a coathanger convention. Not much goes on up here and there’s not much to do so it’s kind of like living in space. It might be a shithole, but it’s OUR shithole and we love it. We feel the same about Lancaster where we live. It was pretty deep and we really identified with it. The video itself looks like what might transpire should you surreptitiously slip an LSD tab into Nick Parks tea, but was actually conceived and directed by the band itself as guitarist/vocalist Holly Ross explains: “It is inspired by a book we used to read to our son, about a spaceman who went off exploring other planets but every planet he went to, there was something inhospitable or wrong with it and when he landed back on planet Earth he realised that after all his cosmic travels that earth was the best place for him to live. Lancastrian duo The Lovely Eggs have just released a video for the joyous ‘Wiggy Giggy’, one of the standout tracks from their outstanding album ‘This Is Eggland.’ The track will be available on 7″ on Friday 16 February, with the album dropping on 23rd February via their own Egg Records label.
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